Wow, you packed a lot of interesting ideas into a tight little piece. Good writing and very effective.

This paragraph is prescient.

"We can assume, for example, that consumption will not be the only thing that suffers as the world’s economies unravel. The closest analogy might be the American Depression of the 1930s: massive unemployment and unprecedented environmental damage, collapsing communities and social institutions, mass migration, escalating civil and political unrest … but with a lot more heat. How humanity will respond to this unprecedented debacle remains to be seen."

Because "Dust Bowl 2.0" starts this summer. Another Depression is waiting in the wings and about to take the stage.