Beginning in the second half of the twentieth century, the impacts of climate change have
been fierce, causing loss of human life and irreparable destruction to natural and man-made
infrastructure in many parts of the world. The difference between climate change now and in
the past is that of sudden and disproportionate disruption of the natural energy dynamics by
the changing consumption patterns of billions of human beings who have polluted terrestrial
and aquatic ecosystems. The picture that emerges from the exhaustive analysis of …