as the UK government’s Office for Budget Responsibility recently put it, it is easy to answer the question of how the problem of climate change is solved: it will be nature, rather than human action, that ultimately brings net emissions towards zero.[83] It will do so through catastrophic depopulation, whether through hunger, disease or conflict. With fewer of us around to burn fuel, cut down forests and tear minerals from the earth’s crust, the human footprint may become drastically reduced – and we will move closer to the sustainable, lush paradise of our fantasised past. Perhaps we will
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