Aforementioned: aphorisms and questions for 2015

We can burn carbon so long as Nature draws down MORE than we are sending up. That's the hard part. The balance here is wildly out of kilter. The plants in this picture are drawing down only a tiny fraction of what is being sent up into the atmosphere. This equation must be turned upside down or the biosphere probably won't make it. Surprisingly, it is not difficult for any of us to imagine what needs to be done here.