But the allure has dimmed amid growing evidence that the kind of goals proposed by the European Union are contributing to deforestation, which speeds climate change, and helping force up food prices.
How does the answer depend on the mobility of the species, on the extensiveness of the area, the local population dynamics, and on the speed of climate shift and the way climate actually acts on a species?
Engineering and economic system changes for reducing GHG emissions and revert the rapid speed of climate change are promising, but insufficient to meet the climate stabilisation targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Another concern is that fracking will speed up climate change, by releasing important quantities of methane gas into the atmosphere, thus threatening an already-arid climate.
When the speed of climate change exceeds 3.7 grid cells/time step, the combination of high mortality by the trailing edge of the climate window and high mortality of long-distance dispersers pushes the population to the limit of what is theoretically possible in our model.
And pumping more oil would only speed dangerous climate change, they argue.
They would rather see technologies that pump carbon into the atmosphere, threatening to speed global climate change, go extinct than evolve.
The oceans absorb around a quarter of emissions caused by human activities, such as the burning of fossil fuels, reducing the speed of climate change.
The speed of climate change may also help, reckons Paul Romer of New York University, if broader shifts in habitability occur slowly enough to allow a relatively smooth geographic adjustment.
"Regents, faculty and students alike came together, shared their concerns over the scope and speed of climate change, particularly as it affects the Hawaiian Islands, then did something about it".
