"but that time scale can be millennia. In the meantime, nature can wreak tons of havoc." For sure - I suppose I'm questioning humans' ability to mitigate such

"but that time scale can be millennia. In the meantime, nature can wreak tons of havoc." For sure - I suppose I'm questioning humans' ability to mitigate such havoc without causing a load of unintended consequences. "Nature (and by that I mean ecosystems because nature is a vague) also doesn’t behave in necessarily intuitive or easily observable ways either. What might seem “obvious” at first can be very wrong." I think I was saying a very similar thing, actually. I certainly agree with you on that.