The failure of the system and of the nation's leaders means that a course-correction is too late at this time.  What we can do is prepare the lifeboats and eliminate toxic cultural baggage for the voyage "home." 

The U.S. government is aware of the crisis to the degree readers of this column are, as this report will show.  Just as bad as "keeping a lid on it" is the absence of any realistic mitigation that can help people and the environment survive petrocollapse.

The increasing chance of our extinction due to extreme climate change is as outrageous as the social injustice that’s allowed to continue without meeting resistance.  But the mind of industry and even "progressives" seems to favor denial right to the end.  This is why I propose a visionary opposition movement to implement lifestyle change toward a new culture. 

September was the hottest September on record.  There is no more time to lose being mesmerized by entrenched institutions and their distractions.