In the States, the movement's actually gotten much much much stronger. There really was no climate movement so to speak before that - I think because everybody assumed that reasonable heads would prevail and do the right thing - and why would you need to have a huge movement in order to cause our leaders to deal with the most serious problem that they face. In a rational world you wouldn't. They would deal with it.

Renewable energy is far more labor-intensive than fossil fuel production.

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

We have built a greenhouse, a human greenhouse, where once there bloomed a sweet and wild garden.

I think [George W.] Bush has done nothing right about global warming.

I do a certain amount of work in religious communities on these issues. It's not the central focus of my work but it is certainly an area where I have worked a lot. It has gotten much better over the years, especially over the last couple years. There wasn't a religious environmental movement 15 years ago, but there is now - in the Catholic community, the Jewish community, the mainline Protestant community, and in the Evangelical community.

We couldn't outspend the fossil fuel industry - they have more money than God.