In my own faith tradition, these questions have been very important. It has always been easiest for me to apprehend God in the natural world. I love to go to church, but when I really want to feel the presence of the divine I'm more likely to head up into the mountains.

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

On the top of these mile thick slabs of ice the water is percolating quickly to the base and greasing the skids, as it were, for the slide of that ice into the ocean.

Those of us in the west have figured out a lot of ways to damage the lives of poor people in this country and around the world over the years.

In the United States, cheap fossil fuel has eroded communities. We're the first people with no real practical need for each other. Everything comes from a great distance through anonymous and invisible transactions. We've taken that to be a virtue, but it's as much a curse. Americans are not very satisfied with their lives, and the loss of community is part of that.

Sometimes, I, anyway, get tired of playing defence, and like to play offence.

The idea that China and India will just abandon climate action is not true, because they're doing it for more reasons than we are.