Permafrost thaw won’t run away with Earth’s climate

[On the Road]

1. The Plan to Do Nothing About the Climate

except force the energy transition before it's ready and wait a century is for some reason considered not only sensible, but the only sensible plan. Taking direct action could reduce the temperature relatively quickly and keep most of those 100 billion tons of carbon in the ground.

The only advantage of the author's approach is to frighten people and mislead them that passivity is the only acceptable way to proceed. This appears to outweigh the importance of global warming itself.