We have assumed control where once we worked with what we were given.

Often when I'm on TV, they'll ask what are the three most important things for people to do. I know they want me to say that people should change their light bulbs. I say the number one thing is to organize politically; number two, do some political organizing; number three, get together with your neighbors and organize; and then if you have energy left over from all of that, change the light bulb.

When you have solar panels, your electricity gets there for free, no one's figured out how to meter the sun yet. And that's good.

A price on carbon sufficient to keep 80% of current reserves underground, rebated directly to citizens.

If we had about 100 years, that sort of slow cultural conversion would be exactly the thing to do. But physics is calling the tune here. We've got to respond to a timetable that physics has set for us.

It now appears that the fracturing of that ice is happening much more quickly than people previously thought, apparently at a slow melt.

The end of nature sours all my material pleasures. The prospect of living in a genetically engineered world sickens me. And yet it is toward such a world that our belief in endless material advancement hurries us. As long as that desire drives us, here is no way to set limits.