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The dramatic global extinction of species, the ineffectiveness of the Paris Climate Agreement, and not least the rollback in U.S. climate policy urgently raise the question of how to philosophically address the seemingly unstoppable ecological catastrophe. In his insightful, easily understandable, and passionately written essay, which stylistically aligns with the Montaigne tradition and unmistakably draws on influences from thinkers like Günther Anders, the author provocatively confronts readers with the diagnosis: It is too late. Rich in material, he traces the history of humanity and its self-elevation above itself, describing the man-made, deadly processes whose consequences are evidently neither reversible nor manageable. Fuller arrives at the shocking realization that only the acceptance of the current situation can point a way out of the crisis.