To help slow this process down we need to reduce our rate of fossil fuel consumption, and then find alternative fuels to the earth's natural reserves.
The unprecedented increase in human Numbers is paralleled by the highest levels of fossil fuel consumption and greenhouse gas production in history.
As a result, about 40 billion tons of carbon dioxide are sent into the atmosphere every year, making fossil fuel consumption the biggest of all humankind's unwitting geoengineering experiments.
