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Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan

I teach people the subject matter and the problems associated, I don't offer solutions because if I had any good ones I'd be writing about them as we speak. I teach the science, the facts, and let students (particularly our social entrepreneurship students) work on solutions. At the moment there aren't great ones, but I try to inspire my students to come up with solutions to the problems while remaining realistic.

I think that you, like most Albertans, are especially touchy around the subject of oil and gas because of how closely the local economy is tied to it. The fact remains, we cannot continue to burn carbon-based fuels and expect everything to turn out okay. There will be a severe reckoning in our future if we don't make significant changes in both our energy consumption and production, even if those changes aren't easy to do. There is no doubt that significant costs will impact economies over the short term, and I personally believe the tipping point of when we decide to actually take these steps happens after there are events of mass starvation or natural resource depletion. I hope that it doesn't come to that, but I'm skeptical of human nature.

Yeah, neither of those things will happen.