Wicked Problems don't "scale up" well. In a decentralized world, this uncertainty would not matter too much. In a centralized world, we're all potential victims to hubris of a few, or the bad decision making of ideologues of myopic intellectuals.
https://georgejnasr.wpcomstaging.com/2022/04/01/wicked-problems-and-scale/
The COP30 phased out language about "phasing out" all "fossil fuels"; here's to the return of scientific objectivity