I was listening again to a TED Talk by Katharine Hayhoe that is the most effective and intelligent discussion of climate change that I’ve ever heard. She is a Canadian who lives in Texas, which is – like Alberta – most often associated with fossil fuel extraction and high carbon emissions. Yet both the US state and the Canadian province are producing a lot of clean, renewable energy these days.

She noted that Texas had more than 25,000 jobs in wind energy and was almost up to getting 20% of its electricity from clean, renewable sources (and this TED talk was in 2018, so the figures have risen since then, of course.)

But what caught my attention was her statement that the largest US army base, Fort Hood (just renamed Fort Cavazos), was now powered by wind and solar energy and thus saving taxpayers more than $150 million.