Those of us in the west have figured out a lot of ways to damage the lives of poor people in this country and around the world over the years.

Oil companies are radical because they're willing to alter the chemical composition of the atmosphere.

We've been in lots of places that I suppose, by Oxford standards, would be considered illiterate, but everyone's completely conversant with the idea that here is a number, and that number is above it, and that's too high. It's not a very complicated idea.

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.

Certainly, packets of sea ice, in say the Arctic, which have failed to fully reform in the last couple of years.

That's why people are standing up again to fight the Keystone pipeline in Nebraska and South Dakota and Montana. Everyone is well aware of what this industry is about. It engages not only in those kind of practices, polluting people's water, but it has polluted our political life now for a quarter century.

In reality, climate change is actually the biggest thing thats going on every single day.