Virginia must collaborate with other States to marshal competent engineering efforts to tailor the energy policy toward the most effective possible mitigation or reversal of anthropogenic global warming; nothing else should matter. Residents of Virginia need the Earth to continue to provide the conditions that enable human life, and the risk is high that the warming will push the physical parameters of the atmosphere and ocean outside of the envelope where life can be supported. The risk via massive crop failure, death of the phytoplankton, and other possible channels is severe and immediate and all energy policy must be directed toward rescuing humankind from those risks.