ALBERTA WIND &

THE GLOBAL ENERGY TRANSITION

CanWEA Spring Forum / Banff / 18 April 2019

“The things that we pay immediate attention to

are things that are here and now, things where

there is a certainty of imminent threat, especially

those that are caused by an identifiable enemy

with the intention to cause us harm.

And the problem is climate change has none of

these qualities. Climate change appears to be in

the future, uncertain, distant in both time and

place. And possibly, above all, it suffers from the

fact that there is no clear enemy with the intention

to cause us harm.

In fact, if anyone is responsible, it is ourselves.

And that generates another level of anxiety and

moral challenge for us that makes us want to

push this issue even further away into the far

distance and not to deal with it.”

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