Alex Steffen poses a question and offers an answer to our climate change problem when he says in this TEDTalk that
….by looking at climate change as a clean energy generation problem were in fact setting ourselves up not to solve it.
A provocative and interesting quote he gives us at the end of his talk from Paul Hawken
Our economy now by and large operates as Paul Hawken has said by stealing the future, selling it in the present and calling it GDP.