It's quite possible that we have already passed the threshold for triggering feedbacks that make cutting consumption insufficient to ward off cataclysm. The per

It's quite possible that we have already passed the threshold for triggering feedbacks that make cutting consumption insufficient to ward off cataclysm. The permafrost is one, among many others that we're still discovering. Even if industrial civilization stopped on a dime today, it's quite possible that we've already initiated a runaway hothouse scenario. That only becomes more likely the more we emit. Technology will be necessary to mitigate and adapt, and so switching our energy systems to carbon neutral is the first of many steps. Consumption will also have to come down, but I don't imagine many places will manage to do it voluntarily. Perhaps some more pro-social, community oriented countries will do so, but the more hyper-capitalist, individualist countries will likely fight tooth and nail to continue consuming until nature forces an end to it. Classic tragedy of the commons, except the commons is our only known habitable biosphere.