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.

Colonialism of one kind or another, imperialism of one kind or another, and slavery, and on and on and on.

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.

I think it's going to be a tough century; I also think people are starting to rise up, and that a growth in human solidarity will help compensate for the loss of margin in the natural world that will make life harder.

Our weird problem is an abundance of resources and a shortage of hard economic reasons not to use them.

Here, there's more of a movement, it doesn't mean we're winning any more, but we're at least fighting.

If we were built, what were we built for? ... Why do we have this amazing collection of sinews, senses, and sensibilities? Were we really designed in order to recline on the couch, extending our wrists perpendicular to the floor so we can flick through the television's offerings? Were we really designed in order to shop some more so the economy can grow some more? Or were we designed to experience the great epiphanies that come from contact with each other and with the natural world?