Other panelists described the competing responsibilities of maximizing returns while safeguarding against the financial risks of potential climate cataclysm.
He admitted to several other protest actions, saying, "I did these things because I believe that it is the obligation of every thinking person to find a way to stave off climate cataclysm, and there is no effective, legal alternative to personal direct action".
Compared with the potential global cataclysm of true climate change, even the war in Iraq and the national debt pale.
The cataclysm caused massive climate disturbances, rendering the planet into a desert, and many of the survivors including Khan's wife were killed by the only surviving species of animal, the Ceti eel.
Even the slow, steady melting of the ice in national parks with glaciers, often cited as evidence of climate change, can result in cataclysms as the geology and hydrology of the mountains respond to new pressures.
Doing so would obviously be significant for several reasons: retrospectively, it would show temperature instabilities in yet another part of the climate cycle, and prospectively it would seem to suggest a cataclysm in our own not too distant future.
Examining the ways in which climate change has long disrupted human societies, this sober, forceful history anticipates the potential cataclysms to come, in a world that, because of man-made emissions, is warming at an unprecedented rate.
Their recommendations, issued at public launch events in The Hague on June 16th and again in Washington D.C. on July 9th, focus on three broad areas - climate change, the intersection between "cross-border economic shocks" and an array of possible cyber cataclysms, and intrastate violence "in fragile states".
Climate change, the loss of biodiversity and deforestation are already showing their devastating effects in the great cataclysms we witness," he said.
The CATF notes, "It is now well established in climate science that CO2 emissions globally must stop, by the middle of this century, to avoid the worst cataclysms of global warming".
