**10. Conclusions**

Climate change is underway. It was induced by human activity that commenced with the Industrial Revolution. The medical disease model frames climate change as the downstream effects of a rise in global temperatures caused by humanity's overconsumption of resources and the production of GG. If the earth is viewed as the human body, then humanity can reduce the amount of toxin production or behave like a metastatic cancer consuming all desired resources, which will eventually result in the organism's death and the demise of the cancer as well. Those who created the problem are obligated to address it. Humanity must acknowledge the current climate crisis, agree on a factual framework, and identify viable solutions. Irrespective of the ethical framework utilized, treatment of this disease process requires the application of the four pillars of autonomy, beneficence, non-malfeasance, and justice. Thus, everyone must act to reduce individual resource consumption and the production of GG. It is unlikely that these goals will be realized without gender equality that will attenuate human population growth and its associated rate of resource consumption. Project Drawdown has proposed a roadmap for addressing climate change. It remains to be seen if humanity will rise to this challenge.
