If one wanted to stigmaitise, that's how one would do it - lots and lots of people saying "we're severing our ties".

We had other currencies that we could find work in - the currencies of movements: passion, spirit, creativity.

But tolerance by itself can be a cover for moral laziness.

The technology we need most badly is the technology of community, the knowledge about how to cooperate to get things done.

It's much to the credit of the rest of the world that they have gone ahead and tried to do the Kyoto accords on their own. It makes it unbelievably difficult to do that, for a variety of economic and regulatory reasons, without the participation of the biggest energy user in the world.

When you are in a hole, stop digging!

The models that have been constructed agree that when, as has been predicted, the level of carbon dioxide or its equivalent in other greenhouse gases doubles from pre-Industrial Revolution concentrations, the global average temperature will increase, and that the increase will be 1.5 to 4.5 degrees Celsius or 3 to 8 degrees Fahrenheit... In Dallas, for instance, a doubled level of carbon dioxide and other gases like methane, would increase the number of days a year with temperatures above 100 degrees from 19 to 78 each year.