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TODAY IN B.C.: Solving the climate crisis with todayѻýs technologies explored in new book
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Bob McDonald has been working as a science journalist and an author for more than 30 years, most notably as the host of the CBC television program ѻýQuirks and Quarksѻý.

ѻýWhat we need is longterm thinking,ѻý McDonald tells ѻýToday in B.C.ѻý host Peter McCully, discussing how to solve the planetѻýs climate crisis. ѻýEnergy in the future is going to come from a lot of different sources. Itѻýs going come from the sun, the wind, the tides the earth, waves, whatever. Thatѻýs the future. Itѻýs going to be multiple and fossil fuels will be part of that.ѻý

The book is called The Future is Now: Solving the Climate Crisis With Todayѻýs Technologies and discusses carbon fuels, biofuels, wind, tides, solar, nuclear and other alternative energy sources.

ѻýLetѻýs get over the fears and just move ahead with it and evolve our technology,ѻý said McDonald. ѻýI really believe we can do that. Weѻýve been to the moon and back, for Godѻýs sakes. Weѻýre very clever, weѻýre really smart. So letѻýs evolve our technology and prevent another mass extinction event, which would be us.ѻý

When asked if the opportunity arose for a seat on ѻýBlue Originѻý and a trip to space, McDonald said: ѻýIѻýll be there in a heartbeat, itѻýs been my dream to get into space.ѻý

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Peter McCully

About the Author: Peter McCully

Peter has been a broadcaster and publisher on both of Canadaѻýs coasts and has owned a small newspaper and run an advertising agency along the way.
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