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

There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it's not really there.

I think we need to think of lots of ways to communicate. And we tried some at 350. We organised what they called the largest art project in the planet's history. We do a lot with art and music and things.

In the last two years 24 countries have set new all-time temperature records. We've seen flooding on an epic scale in every continent .

TV, and the culture it anchors, masks and drowns out the subtle and vital information contact with the real world once provided. There are lessons, enormous lessons, lessons that may be crucial to the planet's persistence as a green and diverse place and also to the happiness of it's inhabitants-that nature teaches and TV can't.

Katrina opened a good door and Al Gore went through it with his movie.

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.