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.

Signs of a poorly understood but treatable house fire requires action, not inaction.

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.

Changing the world's oceans to increase their uptake of CO2, as other geoengineering solutions propose, is equally dangerous, as the increased resulting acidity of the oceans kills tiny crustaceans, such as krill, that are the basis of the pyramid of life on the planet as we know it.

Carbon negative power plants can provide energy while they overcome poverty and change economic values in the right direction.

The new markets that arise from ecological constraints will dominate the 21st century economy, and so will markets for knowledge.

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