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That book put me in a really bad place for more than a year. It was so depressing, i just couldnt shake the inevitablity of it all.

The fascist take over of the US has been a quaint distraction, but in the end it also means nothing compared to the collapse of the food chain. You cant eat dollars.

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Yeah, the dissonance of day to day stresses and societal issues with mass extinction is hard to deal with. I’m currently putting together a pile of a few books that claim to have pragmatic but optimistic/hopeful views of where we go from here.

Any good suggestions so far? The best I read was Not The End of The World by Hannah Ritchie from Our World in Data.

Thanks for the suggestion. Two I’ve already read that I thought were decent were Bill Gate’s “How to avoid a climate disaster” and Kim Stanley Robinson’s “Ministry for the Future”. I have Drawdown next on my list.

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