When politics is too slow, change has to come from culture.

American democracy is in grave danger from the changes in the environment in which ideas either live and spread or wither and die.

America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.

I have a sense of mission on this climate crisis, and I'm trying to pour all the energy I have into it. And I hope that I, along with others, can catalyze the emergence of real solutions to the climate crisis. I think we're making a lot of progress. I think we're going to win this, but it matters how quickly we win it. So I'm focused on that.

The struggle to save the global environment is in one way much more difficult than the struggle to vanquish Hitler, for this time the war is with ourselves. We are the enemy, just as we have only ourselves as allies.

ManBearPig, half man, half bear, half pig

We can build a collective civic space large enough for all our separate identities, that we can be E Pluribus Unum - Out of One, Many.