If you now live a relatively comfortable life with shelter, water & food, do you really know how you would adapt and behave in this kind of world? This story contains all the good and bad of humanity. It feels like a resource-scarce future will definitely enable the bad, even when it may at first appear to be good. Humans strive to belong and be part of a community. A lesson here is that community is fragile; it takes constant work and vigilance from all of us so that we foster empathy and protect each other. In doing so, we prevent/do not allow greed, power, and dominance to infect us. Sadly, just as we have not adequately cared for the earth, humanity is incapable of caring for itself. This book is a microcosm of all of humanity’s triumphs and flaws.