I think it really speaks to what we've built with our "modern democracies" all over the world - layer upon layer of bureaucracy, and the same decisions can be m

I think it really speaks to what we've built with our "modern democracies" all over the world - layer upon layer of bureaucracy, and the same decisions can be made or un-made at every level. A friend just got a job at a local city council working on their climate change action plan. There are ~20 people working on it, all making ~$80k a year. The city has 30k residents. Every single city of this size or larger in the entire country is going to duplicate this effort, and pay these salaries, and maybe even come up with different solutions to the same problem. City A will ban the use of some chemical, and a handful of miles away a different city with different rules will rejoice in the use of the same chemical. It all feels awfully redundant to me.