The message voiced by climate activists is very simple. They demand that world leaders listen to the science and act accordingly.

That is all we ask: just unite behind the science. — Greta Thunberg

"Climate denial" (including claims that the climate is not warming, or that change is not caused by human activities) is often driven by greed or political agendas backed by the fossil fuel industry. The world's experts (at IPCC and elsewhere) have produced incontrovertible evidence of anthropogenic global warming. Conversely, climate denial is a pseudoscience merchandized by a small minority of researchers, based on inconsistent claims.

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Preventing an irreversible catastrophe should be everybody's concern. The challenge is so great that it would require unity rather than division.

A dialogue between science and religion may help establish synergies to counter the climate and ecological breakdown. Religion, science and conservation can interface, as suggested (in different ways) by the Pope and the Dalai Lama, among others. The great biologist E.O. Wilson contends that scientists should "offer the hand of friendship" to religious leaders and build an alliance with them: "Science and religion are two of the most potent forces on Earth and they should come together to save the creation."