There are multiple effects going on and some are hopeful, but it is worrisome that key factors seem to be the cooling impact of negative events: mismanaged fina

There are multiple effects going on and some are hopeful, but it is worrisome that key factors seem to be the cooling impact of negative events: mismanaged financial systems, pandemics and geopolitical strife. The bigger and counterintuitive picture is that vast numbers of people do not enjoy the quality of life that is nominally achievable with todays technologies and a more peaceful and better managed world would actually enormously increase emissions unless we find sustainable substitutes for whatever really contributes to quality of life. We need to snap out of such absurd incentives and false dilemmas. The task is global sustainable prosperity and we are lucky to have a worthy purpose.