Science and engineering have actually helped us address ecological challenges in a way we could not have imagined. It’s science that allowed us to extract coal

Science and engineering have actually helped us address ecological challenges in a way we could not have imagined. It’s science that allowed us to extract coal and stop depleting forests at incredible rates. Science that allowed us to extract oil and gas powering the economic growth and prosperity unprecedented at any other time in human history. Science gave us Renewables too... today, it’s mostly a question of whether we have the political will to commit to mobilize on a large scale to convert to clean energy and end the inevitable climate catastrophe. If we survive intact, science will give us even better tools to deal with the problems we face. There is so much we don’t know about our universe. We have barely scratched the surface of the earth, barely discovered what lies outside our immediate planetary neighborhood, barely understood the biochemistry of us even....