I am oddly intrugued by the line items I could agree with eg "promote.. interdisciplinarity, consilience, and methodological pluralism". What horrors are these codewords for? Does methodological pluralism mean alternatives to the scientific method like "race science"?

Hope you are planning an EU5 update once you have the ability to test it out? With reflections on the accuracy and also on the values implicit in the new systems?

But we need cities (and fairly dense ones) to make it practical for people to get from home to work and school by bike! And if we limited city growth those people would sprawl out into the countryside and mess up much more biodiversity there. So urban rewilding absolutely but let's keep urbanising!