Up until now, the city-state colonialism worked fine for an insignificant human biomass sending out tendrils of extraction. Global heating is just one symptom of the unilateral nature of consumptionism. Cities have become CAFOs, feeding on rural CAFOs. Humanity may wake up and realize that the only force preventing us from reversing the process (generosity instead of consumption) is unquestioned Love of Money and its prophets of addictive self-hate.