“but we don’t have time”

Well, that’s the breaks.

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There are people who read my book (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F254HFVT/ref=sr_1_1) and say: “The directionality you’re talking about is correct, but your perspective regarding the timeframe is not viable.”

My perspective is one of a “A Great Settling Back” . . . a settling back into sanity over a period of, maybe, like, a millennium.

The dynamics that led to our current state of ecological and social unsustainability played out over a period of about five millennia, so I figure the deconstruction, devolution, re-direction will be an incremental and gradual process playing out over maybe, like, 40 generations. I think this is realistic, but readers say to me: “We don’t have a thousand years. We’re facing immediate crises (like: climate disruption, habitat destruction) that could result in ecocide within decades … or centuries at the most.”

But I don’t think the Sixth Mass Extinction of species will kill off all species. I even think homo sapiens will make it through the crucible of The Long Emergency period. Surely chastened; perhaps more sapiens.