Great essay Richard. But your psychological training should promote some tools and concepts for more than the typical "stop that shit" response. I like complex adaptive systems concepts myself, but would admit that we are stuck on a "red queen" fitness peak (running faster to stay in one maladaptive pattern). Nature would say, the planet would be better off after we go extinct, and in a few million years, humans might get another shot. But that is not a new normal we should accept yet.