So many people are on the front lines of this fossil fuel frenzy. It is infused with a sense of urgency.

The thing that our system is designed to do is keep us alone and isolated in our little consumer bubble. And the most revolutionary act of all might be finding a community of like-minded people where you can talk about these issues and figure out what to do together.

So many people are on the front lines of this fossil fuel frenzy. It is infused with a sense of urgency.

I'm really changed by my research. This book ["This Changes Everything" ]is very different from what I set out to write.

I personally feel very strongly that what it will take is not more disasters, it's that what it will take is a vision of the future that is better than our present.

We're dealing with a crisis of inequality, of joblessness, of underemployment.

What we face in Canada are multiple overlapping crises. We have the climate crisis, which is screaming down on us - all of the predictions are coming true even faster than the scientists thought. We have the inequality crisis, where the Panama Papers are a great reminder that the one per cent have actually created their own economy. We still have the crisis of child poverty, which has never been dealt with despite decades of concerned words from politicians.