Latinate polysyllables don't have a lot of political 'oomph,' I suppose. But these two words, it seems to me are the crux of the enviornmental conundrum: Decarbonization and Overpopulation. Decarbonization is the only immediate rational way to mitigate global warming:
The IPCC says we have a 15-year window to decarbonize our energy regime.
Accepting the reality of overpopulation is the longer-term solution, both to warming and to unsustainability in general:
On these two words, as we used to say in church, hang all the Law and the Prophets.
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