effects of climate change, including extreme weather patterns, increasing droughts that lead to famine and disease, massive floods and avalanches in Asia, and species extinction unless significant action is taken on a global level to abate climate change. During the past six years, the Bush Administration has made several attempts to block or censure government employees or reports that warn of global warming. The United States, Saudi Arabia and China worked to tone down the panel's report, leading many of the report's most alarming projections to be generalized." The bottomline is we've all got to start doing the little things that add up to change, because we've only got " This Moment On Earth ," and if we blow it... among other things, the worst effects of climate change " would be felt in regions that are mainly poor and already facing dangers from existing climate and coastal hazards." We can all make a difference in little ways and that difference will add up to an important change. That's the message of the Kerry's new book, " This Moment On Earth ," it's all about " The Importance of Being Green ."