If it's wrong to wreck the planet, it's wrong to profit from the wreckage.

There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it's not really there.

Until it's understood to involve justice for those in poverty, a future for generations yet unborn, and a commitment to the rest of creation, it's unlikely we'll be able to overcome the status quo.

We can no longer imagine that we are part of something larger than ourselves - that is what all this boils down to.

We have built a greenhouse, a human greenhouse, where once there bloomed a sweet and wild garden.

Policies that engage us again in the international fight for real climate protection.

Scientists are telling us that 350 parts per million [of carbon] in the atmosphere is the upper limit. We're at 387 parts per million now, and we're up in that zone where the risk of going past irrevocable tipping points is elevated. It's no different than going to a doctor and learning your cholesterol is too high, and you're at risk for a heart attack. You have to work to lower your cholesterol and hope to get there before the heart attack comes.