The issue has become heavily politicised and even worse, is now a fault line in identity politics. This is the death sentence for meaningful action. If only pub

The issue has become heavily politicised and even worse, is now a fault line in identity politics. This is the death sentence for meaningful action. If only publishing journal articles was enough. I'm not sure that we are hoping for the right category of solution. All countries and people in the world uniting and making sacrifices... has this ever happened for anything ever? I am hoping there are examples, I just can't think of any. Maybe I'm overly pessimistic, but I just can't see the 'Unified Earth' solution happening, at least not because everyone just agrees to be that way. Maybe the right analogy is something like the internet. If you were concerned about tyranny and oppression of free speech in the 1930s, it is doubtful you would ever conceive that the internet could be one 'solution' to that problem. It isn't a perfect or complete solution, and it actually makes the problem worse in some ways, but nevertheless, on that particular issue, the internet has changed the landscape completely. Maybe this category of solution is the best we can hope for. The trouble is that it is very hard to conceive of how it will look or what we should do.