“To Slow or Not to Slow: The Economics of the Greenhouse Effect,”

Michael Mann has written, more bluntly: “there is no amount of resilience or adaptation that will be adequate if we fail to get off fossil fuels.”

if we do not force decision-makers to phase out fossil fuels and eliminate emissions, climate change will cease to be a series of discrete disasters

(The New Climate War)

“1+N” policies could halt warming at 2°C.82 China has apparently decided that 2°C of heating is an acceptable cost of temporarily continuing to grow per capita GDP with fossil-fuel-powered industry.

“realize the gradual replacement of new energy” while keeping “ordinary citizens living and working as normal.”

“1+N” documents

make the world largely dependent on China when it was finally ready for climate action. In October 2010, less than a year after COP15 in Copenhagen,

phase down, unabated, over time—the time is a question,” were his exact words).