The mismatch

Climate accelerates. Species decelerate. The environment changes faster while the organisms within it adapt more slowly. This is not a trend that will reverse or a problem that will be solved. It is a fundamental divergence between the rate of planetary change and the rate of biological response. Every other signal in this reading — the Supreme Court ruling, the AI Scare Trade, the forest data, the escape trends — operates within a system whose substrate is this mismatch. The substrate itself ex ...