I can't speak for the original commenter, but I'm thoroughly on board with every concrete action item proposed in the article. By all means, let's cut emissions

I can't speak for the original commenter, but I'm thoroughly on board with every concrete action item proposed in the article. By all means, let's cut emissions, let's invest in prevention and mitigation for natural disasters, and let's understand how we could geoengineer temperatures back down if needed. I don't like the crisis framing because I think it leads people to hyperfocus on stopping climate change - on cutting emissions - to the exclusion of the rest. If I proposed a huge subsidy to put HVAC systems in more homes, that would be a huge help in fighting the actual human impact of climate change, but quite a lot of people would see it as irrelevant to climate change because it doesn't reduce emissions.