We have to remove the CO2 that the industrial economy has already emitted, which otherwise will remain in the atmosphere for hundreds of years and alter the Earth's climate irreversibly. It is possible to do this.

Climate change is due to the use of energy for industrial growth, which has been and is overwhelmingly based on fossil fuels.

If nuclear warfare is believed to be somewhat controlled, then climate change is now the greatest threat.

The change in economic values created by the new markets for global public goods will reorient our global economy and under the right conditions can usher the satisfaction of basic needs of the present and of the future. This is what is needed right now.

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

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

As difficult as it is to eliminate the risk of nuclear warfare, it requires fewer changes to the global economy than does averting or reversing climate change.