I almost skipped it because it's so emotionally draining and because the Sask Party (the local awful oil-supporting conservatives) just won again, but I just did my climate change lecture.

Prof. Sam Lawler

Tried to tie it in more to the "homeostatic awakening" idea for solving the Fermi Paradox - civilizations have to use much less energy than we do in order to survive long-term, and then they're undetectable (by our current methods). It's a weird kind of hope, but it's something.

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2022.0029