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

Those of us in the west have figured out a lot of ways to damage the lives of poor people in this country and around the world over the years.

If the Holy Spirit is capable of the heavy lifting required to get Pat Robertson to change his mind, then that strikes me as a very good sign.

In the States, I think, the syllogism goes like this: 'free markets solve all problems. Free markets aren't solving global warming, QED global warming is not a problem'. It's not a very good syllogism but it's emotionally comforting if you're in that world.

The fact that Washington has been a complete logjam for anything for the last six years has got to change because we need to have federal policy that really allows us to move quickly and nimbly.

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

To me, it's more important to take the 60-70% of people who really understand that there's a problem [of climate change] and get some percentage of them active than to try and stamp out the last embers of pre-scientific thought.