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

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

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

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

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 "can do" logic, by its own nature, does not accept limits. And an empire does not have a graceful way to evolve out of this role. History demonstrates this time and again.

After denial comes anger and finally, acceptance.