Speaking on April 20 on a panel for Dublin investment firm VentureWav Capital, Evans, of Killiney, Ireland, said: “We need to think very deeply about whether our current strategy of renewable energy is going to make it. We’ve got to be prepared to rethink certain things.”
Cathedral thinking: Describing himself as “an eternal optimist,” Evans noted that climate change needs “cathedral thinking” by politicians.
“Everybody thinks in terms of their election cycle, and everyone’s looking for a result now," he said. "We all have the power with our votes to empower politicians to engage in much longer-term thinking. Cathedral thinking is really the way to describe it. We’ve got to encourage existing industries with a bad reputation to change, so we don’t make the good the enemy of the perfect.”