Think We’re On The Right Track Toward Sustainability? Ask Vaclav Smil

A few people around here routinely tell me to knock off my “the sky is falling” assessment of the state of the planet.  Whether these folks are oil company shills or simply just silly optimists is something I’ll probably never know.  But here’s a certainty: in comparison to some, I’m a regular Pollyanna.

A reader commented the other day that he was lucky enough to take a course at the University of Manitoba taught by the highly decorated Vaclav Smil.

“We are structurally cooked,” says Smil. “(Saving our civilization) is doable, but doable only by catastrophe and crisis,” he said in October. Want an eye-opener?  Here’s a link to some of Smil’s viewpoints.