The Guardian: Earth may have breached seven of nine planetary boundaries, health check shows

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15. Better to go forward - or even stay in place - than go backwards at light speed.

A truism that sadly failed to resonate with too many "progressives" or others in 2016.

** obviously the bigger part of the 2016 problem was the uninformed and/or deplorable who have a weird idea of "progress" or "good" in the first place - but if the number of "progressives" I knew who sat on their hands (or worse) on Election Day; or trash-talked Hillary right up to Election Day then said they "held their nose and voted for her" - if that is at all indicative, they very well may have cost the election, and 4years of horrific backtracking on many fronts including climate change.

It is probably too late to avert a certain (terrible) amount of damage. But we can at least slow it down, and reduce the suffering that will result.