We are seeing every night on the television news now a nature hike through the Book of Revelation. These climate-related extreme weather events have convinced the vast majority of people that the scientists have been right for a long time. We have to address this.

It's not at all new for wealthy and powerful interests to try to hide the ball and ignore independent analyses of relevant facts.

We are running out of time, we must have a planetary solution to a planetary crisis.

We have a planetary emergency. We have to find a way to create, in the generation of those alive today, a sense of generational mission.

I am a passionate advocate of getting special interest money out of politics.

The truth about the climate crisis is still inconvenient for the large carbon polluters and the politicians who are in their pockets.

We face the gravest threat that civilization has ever confronted. It's global in nature and requires a global solution. Increased CO2 emissions anywhere, whether from China or the United States or from one of the countries that is burning its forests like Brazil or Indonesia.