The climate crisis is a ticking time bomb. We must decouple economic growth from fossil fuel combustion to avoid catastrophic consequences.

We still have a window of opportunity to decouple economic growth from fossil fuel combustion, but the evidence is clear that our window is closing, with disastrous consequences.

Fossil fuel formation required geological processes to bury those carbohydrates so that millions of years of subterranean heat and pressure could slowly turn them into more stable carbon compounds ...