I guess the underlying principle might be, don't make it too easy for them to stereotype you.

we use TV as we use tranquilizers- to even things out, to blot out unpleasantness, to dilute confusion, distress, unhappiness, loneliness.

Everything that the administration has done has been counterproductive.

We have to figure out ways to scare and entice our leaders more effectively than the fossil fuel industry has managed to scare and entice them. They've got the big checkbooks. We've got to have the big crowd.

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

There is nothing that will discombobulate and degrade [more] the lives of people near the margin on this planet. You don't have to look much past New Orleans to see that. Who took the hit? Some of the poorest people in the U.S.

I think that so far the political and economic power of the fossil fuel industry has trumped all else.