The flaw in the article and all the similar articles and opinions on this topic is that we still think we have free choice here.

And this stems from that miscalculation or delusion that humanity is above the natural ecosystem surrounding us.

We think that somehow the evolutionary process that contributed to the development of humanity now suddenly stopped, we somehow stopped it like with a video player pushing the "pause" button, and we took over management and can do whatever we want.

So humans initiated new systems, we introduced new laws, building the human society on this new human "reality", we award Nobel prizes for these "inventions' and discuss them endlessly as if they were true.

Even now when this whole sand castle starts to fall, we still try to save it, "solve it" with our own understanding, stubbornly refusing that the whole structure was built on an illusion.

Neither President Obama, or any other leader or simple human being has any free choice about this.

Either we understand that we are still part of the vast, infinitely larger natural system around, and that its laws of general balance and homeostasis are binding for as as to any other living species, and based on this understanding we gradually and as fast as possible re-adapt to the natural principles within ourselves, within human society and in the relationship in between humanity and nature, or we will be forced to do so by unprecedented suffering inside and outside of human society at all levels.

And this is not like "Nature taking revenge", no it is us committing suicide, like a person jumping off the top of a tall building simply refusing to accept that the law of gravity is in effect.

The system of nature is like a "machine" ticking away with its unchanging and absolute laws, either a species adapts to it or it becomes extinct.

The role of President Obama and other public opinion influencing personnel is ti initiate a global education program about the natural system, our own behavior, the way we can adapt to the system to avoid a very unpredictable and volatile future.