The climate crisis is not a political issue; it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level.

When it comes to climate, we can all make a big difference.

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

The oil industry has outpaced the building of a public consensus of the implications of climate science.

I remember as a boy when the conversation on civil rights was won in the South. I remember a time when one of my friends made a racist joke and another said, 'Hey man, we don't go for that anymore.'

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

We've seen the bankruptcy of many newspapers. We've seen a further erosion of the line between news and entertainment. But I do believe that there is reason to hope that over time we will see the higher-quality journalism rise to the surface.