Thanks for replying. It's always a privilege to receive such a well thought out answer to an off the cuff post like mine above. I believe we are both arguing

Thanks for replying. It's always a privilege to receive such a well thought out answer to an off the cuff post like mine above. I believe we are both arguing from two orthogonal axes. You are responding from the rational perspective and I am responding from an emotional one. From my perspective, so many promises like this have been made to fix the world with this 'one simple trick' that it raises way to many alarm bells for me. I go on vacation at a town where there was a famous protest which prevented a forestry company from cutting a large swath of old growth. The natives managed to defend their claim and the land is uncut to this day. I spoke to some of them and their leaders said more or less: "The forest has always taken care of us, and we don't know how it works so we should leave it the way it is." And this is from people who have been observing nature in this one spot for 10 000 years. They might have figured some stuff out along the way but generally the white man won't believe them. Both communities are talking past each other because they don't publish papers, and also because we don't spend much time observing nature do its thing. I guess all I can say is I wish it worked this way, and that fixing our mistakes would be this easy.