At this point, the language of scientific warnings about climate cataclysm has familiar characteristics, even as it gets more dire: The climate is changing as a direct result of human activity; the change is accelerating due to our inaction; some of the consequences are now unavoidable; and it will wreak havoc on our society, plunging billions into food insecurity, storms, fires, heat waves, floods and other assorted mayhem. The latest report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, released this week, echoes these now-habitual admonitions. Yet just because you might eventually…
