Can We Recover from the Worst Mistake in Human History?

Climate change, overpopulation, inequality, and pandemics all have one root cause. It threatens to destroy us.

Virtually all environmentalists know that the Industrial Revolution, which began about 200 years ago, irrevocably changed the Earth and the way we inhabit it. The most notable change was that the use of fossil fuels exploded, which led to dramatic increases of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Before the Industrial Revolution, atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide stood at 280 parts per million; today it has risen to…