A cabinet level office of climate preservation must be created with the power to end all subsidies for carbon based fuels, to level a progressive carbon tax, to impose duties on imports from other countries that do not establish a similar carbon tax, and to promote emergency development and deployment of alternative renewable energy sources.
Burning carbon based fuels is causing unprecedented rapid atmospheric warming, climate change, altered weather patterns, ocean acidification and polar ice melting, and sea level rise.
Failure to quickly decrease our use of fossil fuels will allow positive feedback loops to accelerate these effects ( via methane release from thawing permafost areas and from waming coastal waters) to an irreversible degree.