With climate change alone now actually threatening life as we know it on this wonderful but so badly abused planet, and with multiple additional crises adding to the rapidly increasing chaos it is essential that we come to understand what is really happening, why, and what to do about it. This book is an attempt to aid in that understanding. It recognizes the peril of this moment in our history but far more importantly, it shows what an extraordinary opportunity that peril affords us, can we but see it.