CO2 and other greenhouse gases are a naturally occurring phenomena that warm the planet. In its ideal state, the earth was able to control the warming and cooling of the atmosphere through its own resources and climatic patterns.

Continual burning of fossil fuels (creating carbon overload) and large-scale forest clearing has increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the air that we breathe, to such an extent that the earth is unable to cope and we are experiencing unprecedented rises in temperature called “global warming”.

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Greenhouse gas contributors:
- Power stations 21.3%
- Industrial processes 16.8%
- Transportation 14%
- Agricultural by-products 12.5%
- Residential 10.3%
- Land use and biomass burning 10%
- Waste management 4%
- Other 11.1%

The world’s scientists, academics and intellectuals all agree that global warming is real and is happening NOW. We are already experiencing its terrible effects:
- the melting of the pole’s glaciers
- extreme drought and flooding
- highly irregular/catastrophic storm activity
- rises in sea level
- collapsing ecosystems
- extinction of species

The consequences are equally dire:
- economical pressures
- food shortages
- water shortages
- forced mass migrations
- animal and plant extinction
- heat waves and wild fires
- Arctic and Antarctic melt-down
- large increases in sea level inundating costal settlements and cities