@LordCaramac @breadandcircuses

That many people won't weather the temperatures and storms we've unleashed. So the large number you used measures nothing useful (in my view) but has the bad effect of tethering conversations to anchor bias that cannot be intellectually overcome, even if you only offered it as a stawman to dismiss. I strongly recommend not doing that.

I have the same issue with even mentioning programs that plan to be helpful other than ASAP, yesterday, immediately, etc. Naming any future year suggests the option to pace what can have no safe pace. Better we understand our state will be perpetually "behind schedule and lucky if humanity is still standing" for our lifetimes. Anything else is throwing away thi shreds of hope of any future.

I personally measure carrying capacity not by best case scenarios, such as you vaguely cite, but by worst, and we're not well-preparing for any worst case, much less an enduring crescendo of worst cases.

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