These frameworks have been adopted wholesale by politicians like Canada’s Mark Carney, England’s Keir Starmer, Australia’s Anthony Albanese, California’s Gavin Newsom and others.

So, what happens when nature refuses to follow their political scripts? Nothing. The policy train keeps moving, fueled by inertia, institutional pride and personal hubris. The crisis is not in our atmosphere. It is in institutions corrupted by groupthink, rent-seeking and lust for power.