Something extremely bad is happening very fast.
And even then, we'll need the resources from somewhere else. We will have to plant more trees. The scope of change -- of diet, of consumer habits, of recycling, of technology, of political will -- is too massive to expect in my lifetime. In fact, the steeper the spiral appears in front of us, the more stuff we will likely need to make us feel better -- cooler, smarter, happier -- in the worse days ahead.
The most obvious resolution will come in a few decades, when the heat gets too much, crops fail, clean water becomes more valuable than oil, and the things you were warned about start to kill a lot of people. Then change will be inevitable, and unavoidable, and the number of people all hoping for the same life of wow will sadly drop to something more sustainable.
It's the issue of our time. It encompasses how far and fast we have journeyed as a species -- just as our car starts to shake as it reaches its speed limit. That's why we don't like to talk about it. What comes next is simply uglier, and most of us would rather not say that out loud.
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