At least I sure hope it will - and I see good signs all the time, especially in things like the rise of local agriculture.

Probably more than anything else, the place that we really see the effects of the power of even the relatively mild temperature increases so far is in the melting of everything frozen on the planet.

In the end, climate change is a math problem.

Between [Speaker of the House] Paul Ryan, [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell, and Donald Trump's team, I don't see a lot of openings for making real progress.

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.

What makes us different? We're the creature that can decide not to do something that we are capable of doing.

Sometimes, I, anyway, get tired of playing defence, and like to play offence.