Transcript Into the Eye of the Storm: Climate Change Response Policy

Into the Eye of the Storm: Climate
Change Response Policy in a Five
Degree Future
How do we defend ourselves against climate
change?....
Engineering is the
language with
which we
communicate with
nature…
Engineers are the human voice in the
ecosphere… What they build expresses what
we believe it means to be here.
Growth in the production and consumption of fossil
fuels has dominated Canada's energy use:
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