The consumer class in many parts of the world - certainly in the USA - has been normalized so thoroughly into a life that is actually suicidal, that to survive at all will mean inventing an alternative science fiction-like life, a completely strange full-scale world.

The reality of our physical environment is now seen mostly as a relentless stream of disasters. In fact, it is our own violence that we don’t recognize. Or, we notice that we are involved when a pollster asks us on the phone whether we believe that climate change is “human-caused.” We say yes, that’s true. But if we really believed that, we would, when we hung up the phone, be shocked by the new world we will have to build, with the Earth as our creative director.