Right, I mean I'm a pretty hard core supporter of wildlands conservation, and I think this overemphasis on and exaggeration about climate change is gonna really hurt the environmental movement in about a decade.
Just like what happened with The Population Bomb and to a lesser extent Limits to Growth.
The Wildlands Project has offered a radical but pretty popular solution to this problem with "wildways," or major wildlife corridors that span the entire continent.
That's a pretty neat idea. We have some relatively unpopulated (people) states. If we were authoritarian, we could incent people to move out and allow these locales to become wildernesses -homes to wild species. Places like NM, ND, etc. But even then there are a few states where the vast majority of people live in cities along interstates --the interiors are lightly populated (though often private lands). It might be slow going, but with determination and tenacity then could make a go of something like this.
It has at least some to do with the AI itself. Of course humans are the ultimate origin of AI, but when your system is run by algorithms created by an AI, you aren't really making the decisions anymore.
Just like what happened with The Population Bomb and to a lesser extent Limits to Growth.