Increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is warming the planet. NASA / JPL-Caltech, 2022. Prologue  California must move very fast to stop burning fossil fuels in order to limit the harm and damage from climate change. America and the world have to do the same thing – put fossil fuels out of business as fast as possible.  We love our homes  Thinking about climate chaos is disturbing. It causes a storm of emotions to me, sometimes nightmares. My ideas of virtue go away. Plato and Aristotle as well as Nicolaus Copernicus and Galileo and Newton spoke of a perfect Cosmos, immortal, created by no one. That included the Earth. Perfection and order, Cosmos, was its nature. But now, in 2023, doubts cloud that perfection.  I am speaking from California, my home for 14 years. I have taught at Humboldt State University, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona, and Pitzer College – all in California. I bike, take the bus and train. I walk every day in Claremont, my small hometown. I wrot