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

Irene's got a middle name, and it's Global Warming.

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

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

The polling data shows not an unbelievable level of concern [on climate issue] but a general awareness of this problem. And now I think it's up to all sorts of people who really care about these things to continue on this new ground to try and make this the central political issue it needs to be.

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.

You think OWS is radical? You think 350.org was radical for helping organize mass civil disobedience in D.C. in August against the Keystone Pipeline? We're not radical. Radicals work for oil companies. The CEO of Exxon gets up every morning and goes to work changing the chemical composition of the atmosphere. No one has ever done anything as radical as that, not in all of human history.