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.

The religious environmental movement is potentially key to dealing with the greatest problem humans have ever faced, and it has never been captured with more breadth and force than in RENEWAL. I hope this movie is screened in church basements and synagogue social halls across the country, and that it moves many more people of faith off the fence and into action.

But the truth is that we could win every other fight that we face and if we lose the climate fight, the other victories will be pyrrhic. I don't think even people who are worried about climate change quite understand the scale and speed with which we're now shifting the planet.

From some tiny portion of the wealth the west accumulated in a hundred years of filling the atmosphere with carbon.

The habits of the West in terms of consumption.

TV is sometimes accused of encouraging fantasies. Its real problem, though, is that it encourages-enforces, almost-a brute realism. It is anti-Utopian in the extreme. We're discouraged from thinking that, except for a few new products, there might be a better way of doing things.

Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It's our reality.