I can't keep up with your pace. We are on the brink, as a planet. imo

The clarion call has so far gone unheeded. All the scientific community, and those whos' heads are not buried in the sand, can do is keep sending the message. No one can say we didn't speak up and take whatever action was in our power.

If we don't address this bedrock issue, it won't matter what form of government we have.

on a finite planet. "

Duh ! I knew this 40 years ago..

In the 70's we even bragged about being a nation which had 10% of the world's population and consumed 35% of the world's resources. (I forget the actual numbers, but it was something like that.)

We thought we were hot stuff for doing that, and assumed that when "the world's standard of living equalized" it would be because the rest of the rest of the world rose to our standard. Never mind that simple mathematics proved that doing that was impossible.

We are now seeing the proof we have been idiots and it is indeed impossible.

and when it's 1 degree above perfect, I hear air conditioners going on all over the place.

And of course we live out in the weeds and drive an hour or more to our jobs in our cities.

A medium size dog has about as much GHG impact as an SUV driven 12,000 miles per year (mostly from producing the meat it eats). But no. Squeeeee! We need an animal bred to adore us to validate us.

Obviously having fewer children will help, a lot, especially in super-high consumption super-high-waste-generating developed countries.

So would a lot less air travel. Do we really, really need that fancy planet-killing vacation?

Resource Based Economics as espoused by Jacques Fresco. 'nuff said.

in the body cells that endlessly increase are called cancer.

If we were all effectively immortal,
we'd be talking much better care of our home.

Maybe we don't deserve to survive.

God wants us to be the richest country on Earth, and above all else (even groveling before god) CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME!

I can hear the Republican response to this already. They'll want to nuke the U.N.

It's always more, more, more. They can't accept that there are natural downturns in the economy and that constant growth is unrealistic. If a division isn't continuously growing and profitable, it is a failure and those running it and working in it are made redundant.

So simple to see. Any species provided with excess resources will overpopulate. Rats, humans, whatever. The planet can not and will not sustain endless population growth. Humans are smart enough to know this but too stupid to act on it. Unrestrained growth will be taken care of by nature, by God, by whatever we choose to name our destructor. Plague, starvation, war, lack of water. I do not know by what means our growth will be curtailed, but I do know it will happen.

Sustainable economic conditions, renewable energy, world peace. None of this matters if we are not willing to control our population. I do not believe we can and I know we won't.