We can either save the planet from catastrophic warming, or protect fossil fuel CEOs. Not both. Do the math(s)

We can no longer imagine that we are part of something larger than ourselves - that is what all this boils down to.

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

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.

I'm probably the wrong person to ask. My partner in much of this work [climate movement], who really came up with the divestment campaign with me, Naomi Klein, I think has written powerfully about this.

Our weird problem is an abundance of resources and a shortage of hard economic reasons not to use them.

It drives me crazy to see so much of this planet's life so casually endangered. The first steps are so easy (drive smaller cars, for instance) that it's very hard to understand why we haven't taken them. But I know that this is the issue our generation will be judged by.