There are many questions. 1 Is there warming? 2. How much? 3 What are the causes? 4.what does the future hold? 5. Is it bad.? 6.What can we do about it? There is dispute about the first two. The third depends on the answers to these. The fourth can't be answered. The fifth depends on where you live and how we respond. The sixth is fairly straight forward. We can't do anything unilaterally to impact warming, but within our control is our ability to develop an economy that can adapt. The later is obviously a market economy under the rule of law,and lots of human capital so that we can adapt to whatever the future brings whether warming, cooling, or something worse or better.
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There is very little dispute about the first two. The disagreements are primarily about #3 - #6, especially #3. If the cause of GW is industrial production, yes, certain things can be done, first by seeking more efficient ways with which to produce and secondly by shifting sources of energy production to those which generate less CO2.
Concurrent with CO2 generation is the rapid, worldwide loss of forests that are able to absorb much of the CO2 we produce. That issue too needs to be addressed, particularly in places like Brazil.