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Descartes Philosophy on Global WarmingName:Institutional affiliationDescartes Philosophy on Global WarmingRene Descartes is commonly referred to as the father of modern philosophy. He learned from famous philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle and St. Augustine. Descartes felt the need to delink philosophy from the aesthetics and theology as set by the Greeks and medieval scholastics, and to rest it mainly on scientific and rational foundations, took its origin. He proposes that “the principles of philosophy should be based on self-evident truths, which are certain for all time and free from doubt and dispute, even as the axioms of mathematics are, from which we can correctly deduce all other truths in a logical order, provided we do not go wrong in our calculation and reasoning” (Krishnananda, 2018). Among the self-evident things are ethics. One does not need any formal schooling to learn that air pollution is harmful to the environment. Climate change scientists play an important role in quantifying the extent of the damage that is already self-evident. Descartes also notes the distortion of the truth that originates from human senses such as sight, feel, taste and hearing, as well as illusions. In