We know that the warming rising seas will swallow entire island nations that are about 25 percent of the UN vote and perhaps at the end, even our civilization. This realization is traumatic and the first reaction to trauma is denial. Since there is some remaining scientific uncertainty, a natural response is to deny that change is occurring. This is natural but it is very dangerous.

We are in the midst of the 6th largest extinction event in the history of the plant and the first caused by human action.

Trying to conserve a privileged global position makes change traumatic for the US.

Climate change is new and complex. We don't have all the answers.

The sun is the source of all energy on planet Earth and we cannot experiment with our only energy source.

Geoengineering means changing the Earth's fundamental large-scale processes.

To survive, humans need food, water, and air. Yet biodiversity, the Earth's bodies of water, and the planet's atmosphere are all under threat.