Climate change: Causes, consequences, corporate malfeasance, pseudoscience, and a call to action

Abstract

Chief Seattle famously said, “The earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.” Well, the web is fraying, and our mother is dying. Global warming is a scientific fact; is getting worse; and is destroying the planet’s web of life, sickening and killing people and costing trillions of dollars.