The transformation of capitalism is unstoppable because we need limits on resources for humans to survive.

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

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

We are still learning how exactly the Earth reacts to increased CO2 and other greenhouse gases. We know it leads to warming seas which are melting the North and the South Poles, rising and starting to swallow entire coastal areas in the US and elsewhere, as the New York Times article documents.

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.

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

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.