Climate Change Essential Reading
"...global warming problem cannot be separated from the energy problem. If the human community continues to consume more fossil fuels to generate more energy, it inevitably will increase the emission of carbon dioxide and so hasten the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, thus causing irreversible climate change. Whatever we do on the margins to ameliorate this process -- such as planting trees to absorb some of the carbon emissions or slowing the rate of deforestation -- will have only negligible effect so long as the central problem of fossil-fuel consumption is left unchecked."
"Global warming is not just another environmental problem..."
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