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.

We're mathematically past the point where the accumulation of individual actions can add up quickly enough to make a difference. The individual action that actually matters is not being an individual. It's joining together with other people in groups large enough to change the political dynamic around climate change.

It now appears that the fracturing of that ice is happening much more quickly than people previously thought, apparently at a slow melt.

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

Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign donations from big energy companies.

Everything that the administration has done has been counterproductive.

We'll look for almost any reason not to change our attitudes; the inertia of the established order is powerful. If we can think of a plausible, or even implausible, reason to discount environmental warnings, we will.