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Of the central social, political, and economic questions of the century is: how then do we act?

Problems will continue to manifest themselves-both as we try to prevent and as we try to adapt to the consequences of climate change-so human systems will have to learn how better to respond. So far, we have failed to address the challenge adequately. The social problem‐solving mechanisms we currently possess were not designed, and have not evolved, to cope with anything like an interlinked set of problems of this severity, scale, and complexity. The stakes are massive, the risks and uncertainties severe, the economics controversial, the science besieged, the politics bitter and complicated, the psychology puzzling, the impacts devastating, the interactions with other environmental and non‐environmental issues running in many directions. Climate change presents perhaps the most profound challenge ever to have confronted human social, political, and economic systems.