Given this availability of solutions (which are largely absent from the North American media), we authors concur that the political, media, and moral failures to act decisively have now become willful crimes against life itself. This conscious refusal to act with purpose helps to answer the questions, "Where is the human outcry for earth's life-support? Why have we failed to seize control of our survival? " Trappist monk Thomas Merton explored a similar mystery in the 1960s. During the nuclear madness of the Cold War, he coined the term "the unspeakable" to describe a vacuum that can be utterly void of compassion and responsibility. This moral abyss is still very much alive within the deep military-industrial state that Eisenhower warned about in 1961. The public needs to acknowledge and understand this nihilistic mindset, which since the 1980s has played a major role in hiding from society the truth about the climate crisis. This moral abyss is still very much alive within the deep military-industrial state that Eisenhower warned about in 1961. The public needs to acknowledge and understand this nihilistic mind-set, which will be discussed in a brief section, "Confronting the Unspeakable." Pope Francis, in his 2015 Encyclical Letter -- which was backed by all the major world faiths -- referred to climate change as "a sin against God.

" Following the Pope's declaration, the UN Paris climate summit was signed by 195 countries -- yet astonishingly our North American national governments persist in activities of deep denial, as they rush ahead with new pipelines. And incredibly, against decades of IMF and World Bank pressure to phase them out, governments continue to subsidize fossil fuels to the globally suicidal extent of trillions of dollars worldwide, as if our political leaders wished to destroy our future. Simply stopping these subsidies would be an instant game changer. Another powerful strategy is legal action against governments for the crime of omission to protect the right to life of their populations -- a public trust duty that dates back to Roman times and early British common law. This book is presented in two parts: Crimes Against Life and Humanity, and Game Changers for Survival. It will present: 1) the escalating emergency caused by rapidly increasing CO2, methane, and nitrous oxide; 2) the ongoing political and media efforts to suppress climate change as a crisis: by denial, by under-reporting solutions to it,.