Emily Cunningham

But at the time of this talk, he is already an old man (87, although he doesn't really look it or sound like it). He's doing the "I'm a super old professor" thing of having literally turned his transparency slides into powerpoint slides (prob via overworked secretary or postdoc).

I remember him cursing about powerpoint, calling it "this powerpacket thing" and laughing. He's speaking slowly, haltingly, having a hard time sometimes reading stuff off his slides. But what I wouldn't give to have this version of my father back. He now remembers so little ...

it's pretty much impossible to talk about anything. He doesn't remember he used to support solar energy at scale, for instance. 2. Other point of heartbreak: all the topics he is speaking about 10 years ago are still with us, but worse. He came to be interested in climate ...

during his retirement. He read, learned stuff, became engaged. All that he's talking about was already so widely known then. How can "we" have gotten it so wrong in terms of response or lack thereof?

I used to argue with him about socioeconomic factors, about equity, about distribution, about extractivism. He always went back to "how do we make enough low carbon electricity for Europe's current consumption levels" as his research question.