"The important thing to realise: we don’t consider climate change to be a problem — it’s a symptom. When you have physical growth in a finite planet, pressures are going to mount to stop the growth. And climate change is one of those pressures. So it’s a symptom of our efforts to keep promoting physical growth in a finite planet. You know ironically, if we solved climate change, if we could somehow push a magic button and eliminate greenhouse gasses... but continue with our growth, we’ll just have to see bigger pressures in other sectors. Then water scarcity, or epidemics, or warfare or some other pressure will have to become even more powerful, because finally the pressures against growth have to equal the pressures in favour of growth. And only when they’re equal, growth will stop."
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