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

People in low-lying countries like Bangladesh with almost 140 million people who are managing to feed themselves, whose carbon emissions can't really be calculated (they are a rounding error in the UN's attempts to do national comparisons), and yet, most of whose people are at risk from increased flooding due to rising sea levels.

For the first time in 150 years, the USDA reported there were more farms in America, not fewer. That has to make you happy.

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

The laws of Congress and the laws of physics have grown increasingly divergent, and the laws of physics are not likely to yield.

We spend probably more of our time than we should, just because it's close to home, worrying about the West. But it's equally important to figure out how we're going to free up the resources to let the developing world leapfrog the fossil fuel age. That's at least as mathematically important, and at least as morally crucial.

In certain ways, I think the work in the Evangelical community has been the most interesting and the most promising. Partly because Evangelical congregations may be harder to convince about issues but, on the other hand, are more likely to do something about it.