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behind efforts to cut carbon emissions and to save energy in government and private buildings and industry.

Likewise, The Netherlands, innovators in science since the sixteenth century, have marched to the fore with efforts in wind- and water-powered electrical generation, photovoltaic research, and building design. Their work will be translated into worldwide "green" progress as the technologies are transferred and their impact is felt in other regions of the world.

Obviously, it is important that governments fully support technology improvements in the fight to slow or stall global climate change. Private researchers can and do start their own projects in this area, but only the resources of entire nations will produce results that have the best chance of lowering our global risks. Climate change is no one's private problem; all of us are being/will be affected as our weather patterns become less familiar and more deadly.

Political Action Is Needed to Return "Fairness"

To be fair to all in a society as large as Earth's, stronger partners must begin the work and help weaker partners to protect their people and their way of life. Fairness must include the right to live, first of all, and afterward its meaning must broaden to encompass the means to protect the entire race, that is, all of humanity.

We do not yet know and who knows whether we ever will the shape that climate change will take in just ten years? Ten years mark the life of our smallest children. Are we willing to forgo essential services for them simply to maintain our separateness?

Earth needs many more activists, people who decide to tackle a huge problem and who will urge their governments to lend money and personnel to the projects that can save us all. Ordinary citizens must recognize that fairness to all demands that they contact their governments and cry out for money, for laboratories to be built and used, for representatives of the state to fall in behind the best and brightest they can find, in order for all to live.

It is fair to involve everyone in the talks; it is better to demand that they join in the lifeline, before it's too late.

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