So, we’re at this key point. Where our challenge is not just to reduce emissions...but now we have this other challenge: of maintaining our humanity through whatever lies ahead. Maintaining our humanity through that period of ugliness and desperation that we are inevitably on track for.

We need to grip our anxieties head on and force ourselves to imagine what might happen if their vague catastrophic forebodings truly came to pass: what would happen to us if everything we are dimly worried about really came to pass? What are the real dangers? How might we still be OK, even if it all fell apart? Entertaining the most extreme consequ