“…Important issues include global warming, fading resource stocks, scarce water supplies, and decreasing biodiversity. …”

“…Further, public services are fundamental to ensure fair competition for business, and effective regulation to avoid environmental, social and economic disasters – such as the global financial crisis and global warming. Trade agreements consciously promote commercialisation and define goods and services in terms of their ability to be exploited for profit by global corporations. …”

“…These short-sighted policies also threaten us in the next century with a greater rise in global warming and sea level than have occurred in the ten-thousand years since the last ice age. …”

“…"Manufacturing Climate Solutions presents new research linking U.S. jobs with selected low-carbon technologies that can help combat global warming. In the series, we ask, “In a new global economy increasingly affected by the threat of climate change, what are the U.S. job opportunities in technologies that can reduce carbon emissions?” …”