But the ultimate eco-fact is never going to arrive. It’s never going to be good enough. Just as in the PTSD dream, eco-facts never work as they’re supposed to. They always fail, and in the end we wake up crying in the middle of the night, shivering with unspeakable fear, because on some deep level we know that the trauma has already arrived. We’re already in the middle of it. We are living in a world that is dying.