There is no plan B planet!

Climate change and the inevitable physics and chemistry that drives this occurrence is a consequence of a fossil-fuel dependent society.

The exponential increases in carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere, the four-fold increase in the rate of melting of the polar ice caps and the forecasted rise in planetary temperatures to levels threatening the existence of the human species, is the genesis of a modern-day world war that is now raging, with its outcome  determining the future of all humanity on this planet.

To mobilize steady, linear, incremental changes in sustainability and resilience of our society, and how we live, is a sad testament to our realization and understanding of the true consequences of  exponential changes occurring in our world.

We live on a planet suspended within the void of an endless and chaotic outer space. This world in which we prosper upon can not be replicated. It is our only home and our only refuge within a hostile to life universe. 

There is no plan B planet. We live on all the plan B planets you can possibly imagine.  We are not going to trash this one and move off to the Moon, Mars or go through some galactic vortex to a new beginning.  We are destined to live and die here. On Earth. Whether we make the choices now or later to change how we live is of no consequence to the outcomes of the physics and chemistry that is now degrading our life-giving ecosystem.

We live and die here.

Acceptance of science as a truth begins here on the Earth, whether you believe in saving our society from the ravages of climate change or if you simply embrace Armageddon.  We will prosper or perish together as one species on this gift of a planet.

This planet is ours to embrace and secure for the future and it is ours to trash and destroy.  The one common denominator is that it is our only refuge in the mist of cosmic violence and chaos.  It will remain, always, our only refuge until the end of our lives on this world.