https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/09/climate/climate-change-report-ipcc-un.html

“The report leaves me with a deep sense of urgency,” said Jane Lubchenco, deputy director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. “Now is the critical decade for keeping the 1.5 target within reach.”

Do you remember that WorldWatch declared the 1990s to be the "Decade of Decision" as we were observing the 20th anniversary of the first Earth Day??

Each decade since has been declared the critical one.

And I have no doubt about the criticality. What I have doubt about is any chance of industrial civilization turning on a dime. The inertia of our lifeways is enormous. The problematic trajectories have built up over millennia and accelerated since the advent of the industrial revolution three hundred years ago.

Therefore the inertia is enormous. The lifeways and values associated with industrial modernity have become ingrained and all of humanity has become fully dependent on its systems, institutions, and technologies.

I've said with each Climate Summit: "There's no way they'll be meeting the goals they've set." Every government still talks about growth. Politicians promise it. Few leftists consider de-growth, and none has much of an idea how to accomplish it.

And so we're in for a Difficult Devolution.