And while Costa Rica's carbon footprint is tiny compared to other countries, Ms. Dobles has a higher goal in mind: Getting rid of fossil fuels would show the world that a small country can be a leader on an awesome problem and improve the health and well-being of its citizens in the bargain.
"I have the extraordinarily awesome problem of having more things to do than I have time for," he says after returning from Cannes, where, after The Beaver's glitzy, supermodel-filled screening ended with him, Foster and Gibson receiving a "surreal" 10-minute standing ovation, he decided to draw a line under the film.
"Is there a sense of those 25 million people that they want to be one nation, as opposed to some Iraqis wanting to dominate the whole lot?" He added, "If the answer to that question is that, fundamentally, Iraqis have not come to the conclusion they want to be Iraqis, then we have an awesome problem".
And if and when you start bursting the seams of that envelope, you know what, that's a really awesome problem to have.
(1) It is a hard, and awesome, problem.
America's awesome trade problem is instead portrayed as something else -- an esoteric technical dispute about currency values, the dollar versus the Chinese yuan.
Although its economy has recovered and its diplomacy is more assertive, Russia has an awesome array of problems, any one of which would be seen as cataclysmic in most rich countries.
That obsession breeds focus and when directed productively toward real problems awesome results can sometimes be generated.
By the end of the two-and-a-half-hour show, the Kaufmann Concert Hall was half-buried in drifts of refined light verse invented eons before "whatever," "no problem," "awesome" and "dude" dominated everyday language.
"If you're growing and things are awesome, the media problem at hand is actually getting worse from the cash flow standpoint," he said, adding that Fast Pay is doing "in a lot of ways what the banks should be doing".
