COVID is the first warning bell that when we can't adjust our behavior to live within our environment, our behavior will be adjusted for us, a hard physical limit. All the rhetoric that we can't change, that there's too much momentum and too much special interest is just a futile attempt to delay the inevitable. We will change. We will have no choice. We could choose to change a bit earlier to reduce the final bill.
This 2009 short documentary is fulfilled in the most alarming manner every year since. It has been discussed on this site previously, a couple of years back in my search, but hasn't lost its potency.