The prevailing scientific account of climate change focuses on atmospheric greenhouse gasses.  However, emerging science as well as Indigenous wisdom teaches that Earth's atmosphere was created, and our life-friendly climate is maintained, by living systems. 

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• Sunlit landscapes dominated by green plants and moist soil radiate much less heat than dead dry dirt.
   

• Vegetation converts huge amounts of solar energy into water vapor that carries energy away from the earth surface.  This is the planetary air condition system.
   

• Plants in forests and other healthy ecosystems also cause clouds to form, bring rain, capture water in soil, drive water cycles, and power atmospheric rivers.
   

• Therefore, warming, storming, fires, floods, and droughts can all be mitigated by working with nature to restore healthy ecosystems.

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"Carbon tunnel vision" distracts us from near-term solutions.