> Well, except for some extreme cases (climate change being one), it seems to work.

Does it, though? It sure seems to me as if our solutions tend to introduce ever more drastic problems which dwarf the original problem.

What are our solutions, though? We're attacking this problem from a million disjointed fronts. The blessing (and peril) of not following a rigid strategy.

Though I think we should have some red lines, some big picture initiatives that do need to be planned at a higher level. The US dropped the ball on this for a while, for example.