Thank you for your valuable comment and thoughts - they really made me think. First, about my anonymity: I chose to stay anonymous because my thoughts and ideas go face first and straight up against the dogma's of our western societies - my company where I work included. It was exactly this unbearable inner tension between how I perceive reality and how my society tells me to think about it is what got me started as a writer. After researching the topic of climate change and sustainability in general I came to realize that this technological civilization is wholly unsustainable and drives itself off the cliff in search for "solutions". Overshoot in general and resource depletion in particular is a predicament with no solutions. Neither nuclear nor renewables or hydrogen fusion can save a civilization whose existence is entirely based on an endless flow of minerals and the consumption of Earth's biosphere. If I were let's say full in favor of nuclear power or building an electrified utopia I would not need a pseudonym. I would post under my LinkedIn account and get famous with it. However, despite being fully aware of the fact this whole ordeal is unsustainable, I have to earn a living. I have wife and two kids. I have to feed them, pay the cost of housing and tuition. I don’t own land, nor the skills to make use of it. My family does not support me at all in moving to a small village and start a new life as eco-farmers. My friends look at me like a lunatic when I talk about these issues – so I stopped talking to them about these topics. I got stuck. Blogging has remained my only outlet channel, and the only way I could raise awareness in those who care to listen. This is not say, that there is nothing left to do. Start by standing up against the empire – not an artificial construct, but the very real war machine delivering bombs and drones killing an maiming very real people, or provoking nuclear powers into launching a preemptive strike against it. I could join the chorus of media pundits blaming Russia and China, but that would not have any added value beyond further enraging western citizens against the nations they already hate. Our fellow citizens in the west are looking in the wrong direction exactly for this reason. Instead of making their governments responsible for provoking then feeding a war with weapons, they shake their fists in anger demanding an evil dictator to step down (over which they have absolutely no control). Similarly instead of supporting a government which is actively and demonstrably staging coups in other countries to get their resources for cheap – again a very real thing effecting the very real life of very real millions – we could all work towards a world where there are no military hegemons and superpowers. What is a better way than by starting at home, and dismantling the power structures driving these endless wars? Also, on the topic of energy: we could work towards de-energizing our societies (look for low-tech solutions, also linked in the article), experiment with sustainable building materials, and ways of life. Doing this individually will not make single bit of difference. We need to start a public discussion on how to spend the remaining mineral reserves and carbon we have left, asking questions like should we build stadiums, or housing, and thinking hard how do we power them without destroying what is left of nature or pollute it radioactive waste for many millennia to come. For me this is what thinking generations ahead means. If it’s unsustainable, then let’s not sustain it any longer. Build something completely different, designed to be sustainable from the get go. It might be less shiny, less high tech, but it could save our ass as a species.