[yongjik]

Rule #1 when you find yourself in a hole: stop digging. Sure, there are other things you could/should do as well, but "to stop digging" should be your #1 priority.

Or, put another way, we're waaaay past "we can stop every bad thing from happening" point, but we're still in the "we can stop even more bad things from happening" range, and we won't be out of that range anytime soon - at least I hope so, I don't want to imagine what it would be like "Everything that can go wrong has already gone wrong so there's no point worrying any more."

[m4x]

It's not quite that simple. It will take decades for us to stop emitting GHGs and destroying the environment. The inertia is too high even in Western nations, and that ignores the problems in China and India.

"stop digging" should be our primary priority, but not at the expense of other solutions which can also be pursued in parallel.