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I worked as a missionary priest in Ghana in the sixties and moved to the USA in the seventies to change international trade structures for the benefit of African people. After finishing my International Affairs degree at Columbia University I continued in its sociology department to finish my doctorate in the sociology of international development with a focus on renewable energy. After teaching and organizing around the metro New York Area, particularly in the area of sustainable aviation I devoted four years of research to understanding the causes of the fall 2008 financial collapse and finding a solution. This resulted in the Verhagen 2012 354 page book "The Tierra Solution: Resolving the climate crisis through monetary transformation" published by Cosimo. Since leaving New York City after forty three years for a beautiful continuing care retirement community in North Carolina in 2013 I founded the Chatham County Climate and Energy Discovery Center and my community’s Energy and Environment Working Group while continuing to work on my main challenge of a carbon-based international monetary system with its standard of a specific tonnage of CO2e per person. It is about this huge challenge that Bill McKibben wrote on May 17, 2011: “The further into the global warming area we go, the more physics and politics narrows our possible paths of action. Here’s a very cogent and well-argued account of one of the remaining possibilities.”