> People will be forced to accept a lower standard of life as they are switched to less environmentally impacting methods This is precisely the kind of Carbon-

> People will be forced to accept a lower standard of life as they are switched to less environmentally impacting methods This is precisely the kind of Carbon-Rules-All thinking that got us here. There is an implicit assumption that the only way we could have ever gotten to the "place we are today," however you choose to define that, is as a result of the burning fossil fuels. I implore you to sit with some beer/wine/LSD and contemplate an alternative history in which we never drilled a single oil well but had the same desires for successful civilization. See where you get. The "system level thinking" I'm talking about is the kind that works to explicitly maintain QOL while strongly curtailing emissions. It's possible, and is actually the only way.