Too often, casual observers see the crisis in simplified terms, as though the universality of impacts means they are uniform, rather than defined by inequality, and as though the dramatic divergence of the paths before us means only binary futures are possible—that we will either defeat warming or watch it defeat us. The likeliest outcome, by far, is something more murky, achieved not through single silver-bullet policies or political revolutions or exclusionary nativism or the revanchist triumph of corporate self-interest but some messy mix of all of these and more.
