> I do not believe it will prove to be too little or too late. I absolutely believe that technologies will continue to evolve and be discovered that allow us to

> I do not believe it will prove to be too little or too late. I absolutely believe that technologies will continue to evolve and be discovered that allow us to move our global ecological impact from the red (deficit) to the green (surplus) and in the very long term from a political sense, but in the blink of an eye for our planet, this 21st century panic will seem really quite overblown. But it is too late already, by many metrics. The paths that lead us to 3-4 degrees of warming do take into account technological progress, energy efficiency improvements, petrol price hikes and so forth. There is no "moving from red to green" on the biodiversity loss. That took millions of years to build. Technology might save us from going back to pre-industrial revolution, but won't make the future "abundant", at least not for all of us. There's no denying that a major part of the US population will make it through this century. They are not the ones whose life is at stake here.