> Worries about the climate might well _dwarf_ local worries, but they don't _subsume_ them. In many ways they do subsume them. For example, an impactful stra

> Worries about the climate might well _dwarf_ local worries, but they don't _subsume_ them. In many ways they do subsume them. For example, an impactful strategy to combating climate change is increasing density of urban areas by upzoning. This reduces vehicle miles driven and energy consumed for transportation and heating/cooling. But it also reduces demand for housing in wildland areas, subsuming that environmental fight. Similarly, reducing fossil fuel extraction by replacing that energy with carbon-free sources subsumes the problem of limiting the destruction of rivers from coal mining, and the mitigating the devastation caused by offshore oil leaks.