While science proves again and again how scary the future can be if we don't start making changes, it was refreshing to find someone with an optimistic outlook. Professor Lawrence M. Cathles teaches earth and atmospheric sciences at Cornell University and feels that there's one way we can look forward to a future: by obtaining a "European standard of living". He says they have food sustainability, natural resources, and energy levels down and if the rest of the world could catch up to them, we could potentially be in good shape. Cathles argues that "the most essential resource is energy" and we must lower our percent of carbon for them. He recommends looking toward the oceans, where "the extraction footprint would be tiny". Lastly, Cathles comments on the uselessness of wars over energy: "We have plenty of resources; we do not need to fight over them" he states.
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