The longer it takes you to catch on to this, the more farsighted I get. So, this is the central design challenge of our historical moment. Well, we could try various approaches. We have been trying them, for forty years. Because it's not a political problem.
Nobody votes to fill the atmosphere with soot.
Nobody voted to make Chicago uninhabitable in July 1995. The mayor didn't have, like, a local plebiscite to kill six hundred citizens. The Greenhouse Effect is a design problem. Something huge, ambitious, impassioned, and impressive. A newer Art Nouveau and a more modern Modernism.