You may aware of Bill McKibben's recently completed "Do the Math" tour, but if you haven't listened to his message or actually read the Rolling Stone article from last August that explains the new data I can assure you that doing so will instill a new sense of urgency for addressing the looming, ever-accelerating climate change catastrophe.

Global Warming's Terrifying New Math

The financial assessment regarding how much money is at stake for fossil fuel extraction companies and their investors is staggering, and it explains in great measure why they are opposed to any GHG regulations. However, the raw materials that oil and gas companies provide can continue to be valuable and profitable chemical feedstocks for industry, materials that can be used to create a variety of recyclable, cradle-to-cradle designed products. Burning fossil resources is a travesty—a form of generational theft and a tragic misuse of our natural capital. By conserving the way these materials are used and incentivising industry to recycle them, these materials could be used over and over instead of contributing to the destruction of civilization as we know it and polluting the Commons we rely on for survival.