Surely you have simply proven that globalization is not compatible with a healthy future for our environment?

The above image shows pears grown in Argentina, packed in Thailand with plastic likely imported from China, and then sent to the UK — yes, the contents of this little container had traveled over 27,000 kilometers.

There isn’t any magic technology which will ever make this in any way sustainable. Our consumption and our waste continue to grow exponentially as they have for the last two centuries, and as we approach planetary limits, instead of cutting off the growth, we simply start growth in new areas.

And that hasn’t even worked to prevent growth in the existing areas. Renewable energy sources are growing quite fast, but fossil fuels are still growing exponentially as well. Our Lords and Masters promise us this growth will end soon, but after 29 inconclusive COPs, this last one in an oil country, run by the President of that country’s oil company, and used as an opportunity to make oil deals, you’d have to be extremely naïve to believe it.

Plans for new fossil fuel energy plants actually increased dramatically this year, and each those plants will be online for about thirty years.

If your bathtub is overflowing, the first thing you do is to turn off the tap. But we are refusing to do this, and mucking about ineffectually with mops.

Our only hope would be degrowth, but this would be destructive to the wealth of the world’s richest people, and so we won’t do it.

If this were a science fiction movie, where a tiny number of people were openly planning to destroy the world, not even for more goods or services or sexual partners because they have more than they could ever consume, but simply to win an entirely meaningless numerical game called Money, we would immediately know what to do. But in the real world, we do nothing, and allow all our children’s futures to burn.