Steve, right there with you. "Energy Descent Realists" -- that's great. I'm 100% on board! With this provisio:
EDRs act accordingly. Meaning, conscientiously and austerely. Mitigation remains, and always will remain, possible. We can always make things better, and continuing our same behaviors of wanton consumption despite what we know is unconscionable.
This is where I react to the doomer philosophy. Whether we end up looking like Mad Max, or more like these sustainable islands, in the meantime -- we give it all we got.
Thanks for reading and your excellent comment.