Hydrocarbons can be produced in a carbon-neutral way by using energy from nuclear reactors to synthesize fuels from atmospheric CO2 and water.

“We start with those combustion ingredients, the CO2 in the water. We put energy back into them and we get a hydrocarbon. So I believe that that process will be driven by nuclear.”

A market-based approach, which prices carbon externalities correctly without dictating human consumption, is the right way to address climate change.

“what we need is is again a market-based solution to this and I guess the criticism of a market-based solution is you're basically giving people a way to a the most cynical interpretation would be you can pay to pollute”

Effective climate action requires a combination of policy, carbon pricing, increased energy efficiency, and nature-based solutions rather than just individual actions.

“we need it to work with our good old-fashioned efficiency solutions because efficiency could cut our carbon emissions in half and save us money and our nature-based solutions where we take carbon out of the atmosphere where we have too much and we put it back into the soil coastal wetlands grassland”

Managing the Earth as a system is the greatest engineering challenge that humanity must overcome.

“I I would say it's going to be engineering the whole earth I mean thinking of the whole earth as a system and getting people to work together to con to manage that system which would be engineering”

Indigenous communities mitigate climate change by challenging extractive energy industries and corporate monoculture that threaten biodiversity.

“in indigenous communities we're mitigating those impacts by going against extractive energy resources by going against you know agricultural corporations that are kind of introducing monoculture that are you know it's kind of in at the end of the day destroying the biodiversity”