Wow, this is just too sensible for words.
Judith – why beat around the bush – tell us what you really think!
I didn’t trip up on this one, perhaps because I agree with you. For the most part anyway 
This suggestion especially struck me as not only sensible but profoundly important [and commonly ignored] -
Prepare for the likelihood that social, economic, and technological change will be more rapid and have greater direct impacts on human populations than climate change.
Funnily enough, we’ve been saying exactly this on the previous thread. The bizarre upshot [at least for the 'very-alarmed' among us] is that vulnerability to climatic events is diminishing. It has been for centuries and shows no sign whatsoever of coming to a halt.
The only way this can be obscured is to see climatic impacts as something to do with climate change which is of course nonsensical. However, forgetting that climate variability is by it’s nature an ‘impacting’ kind of phenomenon leads one into the strange world view that sees climatic events as somehow connected with an globally averaged temperature anomaly of a few tenths of a degree.
“6 degrees ago” when people walked into Southern Britain, climatic variations would have been a leading cause of death. If the people of that time could see us today they would have said we were climate-impact-free. Our resilience has made us immune to heat, cold, wind and rain – and given us the power to adapt in any direction we choose. Even compared to 3 or 4 generations ago, our resilience has increased by an order of magnitude.
Where in the world that isn’t the case, the forthcoming changes of importance will be in the people’s resilience, not in the climate.
And by the way, through what distorting prism can the 6 degrees of warming be seen to have been ‘harmful’?