Great writing, I could not stop highlighting the conclusions I've also arrived at in the past couple of years. Pulling all these points together makes such a coherent picture and has such a great explanatory power over the events we are experiencing (and about to experience)... If only more people could put their fears and anxieties aside to deal with this information... Well, anyway, if it were possible for a large amount of people to contemplate collapse we would've done so many things so differently, let's say 50 years ago when the Limits to Growth study came out, or 8000 years ago when the age of empires began... and we would have probably ditched the idea of large scale complex societies all together. I look out the window: the sun is shining, it is 38°C (100°F), crops are failing in the entire eastern half of my country due to the heat and drought, but it is still a beautiful day. Let's enjoy what's left to enjoy and be nice to each other. That's the best we can do.