Don’t oversimplify conversations about how we power our lives

When we recognize that energy systems completely influence every aspect of our lives, it becomes more difficult to argue that we can simply change nothing at all, or everything at once.

Shifting the conversation from ‘energy’ to ‘energy systems’ requires acknowledging the forces that interact whenever we plug in one of our devices, like how many people will stay in big cities if power becomes decentralized and affordable at a micro scale, writes M Anne Naeth.Photograph courtesy of Pixabay

Opinion

BY M ANNE NAETH

March 11, 2020

Canada is gripped by debates about energy. Loud voices are trying to prescribe or condemn a societal energy transition based on selected facts and examples. Unfortunately, many of the conversations are incomplete. The economic importance of oil and gas—“hydrocarbon energy”—has often been pi...

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