Your point about having pre-determined plan is very valid - although, given China experience building major infrastructure for the road and belt initiative, I t

Your point about having pre-determined plan is very valid - although, given China experience building major infrastructure for the road and belt initiative, I think that'd be easily covered. I think the core disagreement is on the empathy levels, and the need to act sooner rather than later. At <1% mortality, I think the pandemic response showed we care quite a lot, enough to do many things, but not to the point of sacrificing everything we need normal just for such little lives to save. If it had been 10% or 30%, I think the conclusion would have been very different. As for the need to start acting now, things take time! The pandemic got us a wonderful vaccine manufacturing and distribution infrastructure, based on brand new technology that drastically cut the time to production. We're lucky we got such a low mortality disease first! I don't see why global warming would happen as a +6C overnight. If Antartica melt, change the gulf stream, it'll be bad - but not "most, if not all, of humanity dies off". Maybe 1%. Maybe 5%? In any case, enough to create a big fright and get us to prepare an adequate response for the next time!