I think fracking for gas will reduce the incentive to turn to renewables, and I think it will do a lot of other damage across the countryside.

Other thing we need to understand is that the financial power of the fossil fuel industry has so far prevented even any minor progress. They have a sweetheart deal unlike any other business on Earth: they're allowed to dispose of their waste for free, to use the atmosphere as an open sewer. And they will do all they can to defend that special privilege.

The technology we need most badly is the technology of community, the knowledge about how to cooperate to get things done.

Our weird problem is an abundance of resources and a shortage of hard economic reasons not to use them.

I'm probably the wrong person to ask. My partner in much of this work [climate movement], who really came up with the divestment campaign with me, Naomi Klein, I think has written powerfully about this.

The habits of the West in terms of consumption.

A price on carbon sufficient to keep 80% of current reserves underground, rebated directly to citizens.