The document discusses several topics related to climate change, including carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, sustainability, recycling, and climate change itself. It notes that CO2 is a greenhouse gas released through breathing, combustion, and fermentation that is a major driver of climate change. The document also defines sustainability as maintaining biological diversity and productivity over time, and recycling as turning waste into new products or raw materials. It concludes that climate change, characterized by rising surface temperatures, is currently the most important environmental problem facing humanity.