As important as it is to change the light bulbs, its more important to change the laws

George Orwell once wrote that a false belief sooner or later collides with physical reality, usually on a battlefield.

The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences.

We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift.

We're still putting 110 million tons of man-made global pollution into the air every single day as if the sky is an open sewer. More than 90% of the extra heat energy is going into the oceans, and that's why superstorm Sandy was so much more destructive, that's why the ice is melting more rapidly, that's why the water cycle is being disrupted and we get a lot more water vapor coming from the oceans into the sky, and that's why we get these enormous downpours and big floods. They happen all the time. Every night on the TV news is like a nature hike through the Book of Revelation.

(George Bush) betrayed this country! He played on our fears. He took America on an ill-conceived foreign adventure dangerous to our troops, an adventure preordained and planned before 9/11 ever took place!

I strongly believe in the separation of church and state. But freedom of religion does not mean freedom from religion, there is a better way.