I believe we live in an extraordinary period in history. By that I mean a unique period that didn&#x27;t happen before and that won&#x27;t likely happen again after it has ended. We&#x27;re able to make so much stuff because we&#x27;re burning energy at an unsustainable rate to do so, in the form of fossil fuels, much faster than we could manage realistically with renewables alone. This will come to an end eventually, either by collective suicide via destruction of our own ecosystem, or voluntarily once we realize that we need to seriously lower our greenhouse gas emissions to survive.