Without considering climate change trends / impacts when planning our energy (built, natural, financial, health, …etc) systems we risk making decisions that lock us in to a high emission future…and fuel the division industry.
It proved be wrong to assume that even renewable energy production can't be disrupted by #globalboiling ...
Canada is and has been a hydro superpower. This is more about a threat to what we already have. It has always been a strength.
Chair, Clean Air Hamilton. Governor at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton and Director at St. Joseph’s Research. Professor (part-time), Environmental Science, Mohawk College.
5moSame is true for our response to the housing crisis, building thousands of homes heated with natural gas furnaces when we could be requiring heat pumps