We'll look for almost any reason not to change our attitudes; the inertia of the established order is powerful. If we can think of a plausible, or even implausible, reason to discount environmental warnings, we will.

There's no happy ending where we prevent climate change any more. Now the question is, is it going to be a miserable century or an impossible one, and what comes after that.

The most blatant examples are increased power and frequency in hurricanes and the increased depth and frequency of heat waves.

Renewable energy is far more labor-intensive than fossil fuel production.

So far the earth has warmed about a degree Fahrenheit globally averaged. That doesn't seem like an enormous amount but it's unlike what we would have expected twenty years ago.

You can have a healthy fossil-fuel balance sheet, or a relatively healthy planet

Environmentalism, I'd always been told, was just rich white people.