I agree with your article on the whole (and I plead guilty as charged to selecting it out of confirmation bias!) But I would add one thing. Most people are not motivated by alarmism (even if it’s entirely justifiable). Rather, terrifying statistics send most of us into deeper denial or paralysis—psychic numbing. And this renders us susceptible, either to the delusions of techno-optimism or to doomer nihilism.
This is why I prefer an invitational approach to motivating people (including policymakers) to change their attitudes and behavior. Not “what horrific things will happen if we don’t…” but rather, “what good things can happen if we do this, and how we can make these better ways go viral?”
None of us has the agency to change society as a whole nor alter the evolutionary programming that makes us prefer short term, immediate goals to long-term abstract goals. Fuggeddaboudit! So our challenge is to “sell” those we know on better ways of living that bring immediate benefits to them while (slightly) increasing the prospects of a “soft landing” rather than a catastrophic collapse and die-off. Hence my “Garden Guild” initiative—encouraging our immediate neighbors to grow gardens, grow community, and grow awareness by nurturing “gift economies” with one another through learning, teaching, healing, and creating locally resilient permaculture-based approaches to Earth care, People Care, and Fair Share.