Among the more important points than never, ever enters actual urban policy making

I mean: as you know, we do. But lawmakers and anti yimby advocates do not. Several anti YIMBYs think our pro transit stance is a joke. One “””progressive””” such person suggested “people like us” don’t ride the bus.

Bangladesh is going to sink and no one really thinks about that or cares to suggest how we might solve the problems that will cause.

also a very real possibility that large swathes of India become literally too hot for human life

the "good" news is those crises are probably far enough down the line that we can address them *after* the herculean task of decarbonization rather than simultaneously with it