> It's silly to condense down environmental landscape changes to one thing like "land-system change" and assign it a single axis of goodness vs. badness. Are y

> It's silly to condense down environmental landscape changes to one thing like "land-system change" and assign it a single axis of goodness vs. badness. Are you saying it's better not to measure and predict these things, or do you have a less "silly" model than these climate scientists? As you say, it's an incredibly complex system. It has to be reduced to broad strokes or else you can't make meaningful predictions.