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

When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic.

In the last two years 24 countries have set new all-time temperature records. We've seen flooding on an epic scale in every continent .

Community is as endangered by surplus as it is by deficit. If there is too much money floating around it enables people to have no need of each other.

If you look at the polling data, long before anyone had thought about Iraq, it was the [George W.] Bush Administration's decision in the first few weeks in its tenure in office to abnegate the Kyoto treaties that set our international perception into a nose-dive. People around the world looked on in amazement as the biggest part of the problem decided it wasn't going to make any effort to help with the solution.

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

My goal was to have as many of the primary sources as I could made available for people to look at and understand. Climate change is probably the most important thing that's ever happened, and yet people's understanding of it and its history remains a little fuzzy.