What about our children and grandchildren and their children and grandchildren? Do we not want them to live healthy and happy lives?

We are playing Russian roulette with features of the planet’s atmosphere that will profoundly impact generations to come. How long are we willing to gamble?

Despite the international scientific community's consensus on climate change, a small number of critics continue to deny that climate change exists or that humans are causing it. Widely known as climate change "skeptics" or "deniers," these individuals are generally not climate scientists and do not debate the science with the climate scientists.

Even meeting Kyoto targets barely makes a dent in what we have to achieve.

Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It's too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity and impacts.

Conventional economics is a form of brain damage. Economics is so fundamentally disconnected from the real world, it is destructive.

Human beings are often at their best when responding to immediate crises - car accidents, house fires, hurricanes. We are less effective in the face of enormous but slow-moving crises such as the loss of biodiversity or climate change.