I don't think things will go smoothly for the instigators, but neither will they for the rest of us. These pirates might be too incompetent to actually commandeer the ship, but they sure can sink it.

Why are we told that cutting carbon is the cure, when slashing emissions also removes cooling co-pollutants—likely triggering more short-term warming? Are we racing to save the planet long-term by destabilizing it even more short-term?

That's not how its being communicated, but it seems implied.

The fact that humanity is running out of colors to visually represent the calamitous state of our planet, is a shamefully unreported crisis. Thank you for bringing more attention to the issue. The most important thing we can do is talk about it.

"The most important thing people can do to start addressing the climate crisis is to start talking about it, the Texas Tech scientist says."

So, the most important thing that people can do is literally do nothing? Talking is not doing.

The guillotine doesn't sharpen itself.

I recommend "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift—an early and efficient plan to address wealth inequality by dietary adjustments for the wealthy. Prescient, practical, and arguably still in effect, just with more steps.

The Spiral of Doom, a common precursor to the Double Helix of Destruction, and important building block of the Great Ladder of Decline, is a vital structural motif in the celebrated architecture of societal collapse.