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

For the first time in 150 years, the USDA reported there were more farms in America, not fewer. That has to make you happy.

Where people aren't as deeply reliant on fossil fuel as in the United States, it's far easier for them to imagine change on this scale. When you go to Europe, they're much more ready. They use half the amount of energy per capita that we use. They can imagine using less than that. They see the benefits. They're ready to go.

There hadn't really been a climate movement, per se. I think everyone spent twenty years thinking that if we just keep pointing out that the world is on the edge of the greatest crisis by far it's ever come to, then our leaders will do something about it. And it turned out that was wrong. They weren't going to do anything about it.

By themselves, they are not enough; we also need to engage in political action.

Solar power seems to be truly bipartisan in its appeal.

I think it's going to be a tough century; I also think people are starting to rise up, and that a growth in human solidarity will help compensate for the loss of margin in the natural world that will make life harder.