I much appreciate your thoughts and explanations, but they make me think of the Swiss Federal Councillor Willi Ritschard who said that the meeting of two optimists more often than not is cause for pessimism, as optimists typically tend to overlook the problem. I tend to think that my friend Helmut Lubbers (www.ecoglobe.ch) and Albert Bartlett (www.albartlett.org) share a realistic outlook. Yet we should all do our best to avert collapse. Nature, however, is cataclysmic, catastrophic, and humanity will be hit hard again sooner or later, be it as a consequence of shortsightedness or by events entirely outside our control, or both, most likely. Our ability to ecologically integrate economy and society has to evolve massively and quickly: How do you suggest we do that and what is your "action plan to save the world"?