The awareness that we’re heading towards imminent collapse puts us in a predicament. It puts us in an impossible situation. The way to live with it, and in it, is to embrace the whole paradox. Jamey: The right brain has this capacity for paradox; the left brain regards it as mere absurdity, as a mere contradiction in terms.

Andrew: You’re convinced we’re definitely going down, and fast. You’ve shut the door. Joanna Macy still holds that door open. She thinks we might make it through, though we very certainly may not. I pressed her on it. Was she just hedging her bets? No. And she’s designed her work to prepare us for both possibilities. I sum up her existential invita

The human psyche naturally rebels against the idea of its end. Likewise, civilizations have throughout history marched blindly toward disaster, because humans are wired to believe that tomorrow will be much like today. . . . Yet the reality of global climate change is going to keep intruding on our fantasies of perpetual growth, permanent innovatio