Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free.

In fact, corporations are the infants of our society - they know very little except how to grow (though they're very good at that), and they howl when you set limits. Socializing them is the work of politics. It's about time we took it up again.

The real negotiation is between humans on the one hand and chemistry and physics on the other. And chemistry and physics, unfortunately, don't bargain.

I just keep trying to explain what's going on with our planet - and now, to explain what's going on with our politics, which explains why we're not doing anything about the former.

I guess the underlying principle might be, don't make it too easy for them to stereotype you.

I think the best way is to keep stressing, that, as we build out a new energy system, one of the best things about it, if we do it right, will be that it will be more local, more democratic, more distributed, and, in the long run, much more economically sensible.

From some tiny portion of the wealth the west accumulated in a hundred years of filling the atmosphere with carbon.