All reports are in desperate agreement: if we maintain our current course, our planet's climate and natural environment, already direly destabilized, will be irrevocably and terribly changed. Before the fast-approaching winter of this all-too-short anthropocene some chart the changes seeking to check them, others seek new adaptations which may bring us out of or through the coming crises, yet all too many are frozen in the inertia of our deeply flawed systems. What is the current state our climate and what is to come? What must we do to survive to see another geologic spring?