A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure to speak with Amy Francetic, founder and managing director of a Chicago-based clean energy investing venture capital firm called Energize Ventures, and the co-founder of the Clean Energy Trust, a Midwestern-focused non-profit clean energy accelerator.

This conversation left me with three take-aways and a newfound sense that the best elements of the capitalist system - inventiveness, the boldness to take on big problems, and almost infinite adaptability - would allow human civilization to continue to survive and thrive in the face of what looks to be rapidly worsening climatic conditions.

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