Climate change needs to be taken seriously as a force that threatens to significantly alter sea levels, increase extreme weather events, and create potentially massive levels of unimaginable human suffering. According to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, world governments are slowly coming around to the benefits of 3D printing technologies that can be used in disasters or in preparation for future climate change effects. 3D printing can be cost-effective, practically applied, and reductive of greenhouse gas emissions -- and the U.S. government has the opportunity to commit resources to combatting climate change while empowering people globally to apply 3D printing technology in all of the imaginative ways that we have already seen so many examples of. More on this discussion can be found here: http://3dprint.com/71924/3d-print-climate-change/