b'Most days, particularly days of pandemic, it sure doesnt feel like an AHA!.It feels as if we are sliding down the slippery slope of exhausted economic logic, the imperatives of markets, machines and money promising that if we go faster and faster, bigger and bigger, more and more global, more and more technological, if we wage endless war and pursue endless economic growth, if we flood financial markets with trillions of dollars of emergency liquidity, somehow we will manage, by the skin of our teeth, just before climate change becomes irreversibly catastrophic and civility goes extinct, to invent our way and lobby our way and buy our way out of the problems caused by the Great Acceleration. The Great Acceleration is so vast, so pervasive, that it is hard to comprehend. Pandemics, stock market crashes and environmental disasters knock it back, but its momentum is always poised to reset for the journey towards the next economic heights and the next collapse. It took all of human history for the global economy to break the $1 tril-lion mark in 1900. It reached $88 trillion in 2019, with some $3 trillion of that growth coming in the last year. Its hard enough to appreciate just how big a trillion is, much less the fact that the global economy increased 88 times over a period during which population increased five times. All manner of daunting trends with respect to resources, pollu-tion, biodiversity and social disruption accompanied this growth.In 2019, more carbon than everalmost 37 gigatonswas put into the atmosphere, while UN COP25 climate talks in Madrid failed spec-tacularly. Americans are now discarding 350,000 cell phones per day, 6'