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.

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

The consensus is that climate change ranks along with nuclear warfare as the top two risks facing human civilization.

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.

Technology is a many-headed monster and perhaps it would be better to regress to a safer past and avoid technological change; it is tempting to think like that.

The first reaction to trauma is denial, then comes anger and finally, acceptance. I think the US is still between denial and anger, and I hope we will reach acceptance because almost perversely, right now, only the US has the technology that is needed for global economic change.