While denial leads to certainty, it is only the certainty of death. This is true for individuals and also for civilizations.

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.

After denial comes anger and finally, acceptance.

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.

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.

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

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