Temperatures up to a0 degrees mean more older people dying. they mean significant stresses on hospitals. they mean significant stresses on almost every aspect of life. you deal with this on a daily, hourly basis. how scared are you, personally, about it? yeah, that s a very good question. sometimes i m. i have a small child, a toddler he s just over two and the projections for what happens when he s, you know, my age and, you know, along a number of decades are pretty grim and they re really frightening. 0n the other hand, a lot of the days i find the stuff that comes through my inbox, there s a lot of optimism, there s a lot of things we are doing really well. the shift to renewable energy, so we re seeing countries embracing renewables in dramatic fashion. the world is changing rapidly. we are changing it. ....