Nicholas Goldberg: Can humanity rise to the challenge in Glasgow and take some meaningful steps on climate change?

With just days remaining before next week's global climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, the Biden administration released a series of reports from the Departments of Defense, Treasury and Homeland Security laying out what the world ought to expect in the years ahead as its atmosphere warms and changes.

Food shortages. Heightened competition for minerals, resources and access to water. Internal strife in developing countries; conflict between nations; collapsed economies and a "threat to the financial stability of the United States." The displacement of tens of millions of people, leading to mass migrations.

This is cataclysmic, dystopian stuff. Like