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But I don't trust that some last convulsive urge to short-term profit, some terminal shortsightedness, mightn't bring an end to everything.

China, too?

We do still share a biosphere with China. And trade with them, to what extent they'll allow.

No brakes magically appeared then, and I don't see them appearing now, absent someone free to act, with sufficient agency, against their worst impulses. The biosphere only survives, today, by virtue of what prosthetic assistance we can afford it. The assemblers might keep that going, were the klept to founder.

The klept's tedious ambition and contempt for rule of law would bring everything down, around their ears and ours. They managed to do that with the previous world order, after all, though then it was effectively their goal. They welcomed the jackpot, the chaos it brought. The result of our species' insults to nature did much of their work for them.

Replaced instead by another feeling, deeply unfamiliar. Another in-betweeness, but between what and what, she'd no idea.