Το Σπίτι (The House), 1996. Prophetic painting by the Greek artist Evi Sarantea. The image captures our present cosmic tragedy of undermining the foundations of civilization by our subsidizing fossil fuels and resolving our difference through wars. The result is our cosmic house is left only the roof, a couple of  windows and a door protecting a couple of children.    Prologue   The year 2023 was the hottest in the past  100,000 years . Human activities in industrialized agriculture, deforestation, and hunting of wild animals in Europe and America also became the norm in the tropics. The results are all bad. Raptor  birds of prey  in Africa have been forced to extinction. Tropical forests in Africa, Brazil, and Indonesia have been converted to industrial farms and logging factories. The tragedy of this massive deforestation is that it eliminates trees, which absorb carbon dioxide, perhaps the most destructive of greenhouse gases warming the planet....