Drawing on the work of independent thinkers, economists, scientists and historical evidence going back thousands of years, this book challenges much of the conventional thinking about global warming and other unsettled questions. As this book argues, misguided land use policies, particularly in the agricultural and energy arenas, have over millennia not only destroyed the land but they have driven climate change. The inherently extractive nature of current monetary policy, which the modern world inherited from ancient Mesopotamia, is the heart of the problem. Land-friendly monetary reform is the only real solution.