  A Renewable Energy and Materials Economy (REME) is proposed as the solution
to the climate change threat. REME mimics nature to produce carbon neutral
liquid fuels and chemicals as well as carbon negative materials by using water,
CO$_2$ from the atmosphere and renewable energy as inputs. By being in harmony
with nature REME has a positive feedback between economic development and
climate change protection. In REME the feedback driven accelerated rate of
economic growth enables the climate change threat to be addressed in a timely
manner. It is also cost-effective protection because it sequesters by
monetizing the carbon removed from the air in carbon-based building materials.
Thus, addressing the climate change threat is not a cost to the economy but a
result of REME driven prosperity.
