The habits of the West in terms of consumption.

No one is strong enough  -  given the magnitude of the task, everyone has to step up their game.

I think that so far the political and economic power of the fossil fuel industry has trumped all else.

All things considered, the internet seems fairly environmentally benign to me. The last stats I saw showed you could do 1,000 Google searches for the gas it took to drive six-tenths of a mile. But the internet can't substitute for real connection and community.

Delhi is locked in a complete choking smog at the moment - they've had to close schools in one of the world's biggest cities. They have their own reasons for needing to get off fossil fuels fast.

If [a student's] college’s endowment portfolio has fossil-fuel stock, then their educations are being subsidized by investments that guarantee they won’t have much of a planet on which to make use of their degree.

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