The roof of my house is covered in solar panels. When Im home, Im a pretty green fellow.

I think fracking for gas will reduce the incentive to turn to renewables, and I think it will do a lot of other damage across the countryside.

The seasons don't matter to most of us anymore except as spectacles. In my county and in many places around this part of the nation, the fair that once marked the harvest now takes place in late August, while tourist dollars are still in heavy circulation. Why celebrate the harvest when you harvest every week with a shopping cart?

A voluntary simplification of life-styles is not beyond our abilities, but it is probably outside our desires.

In the United States, cheap fossil fuel has eroded communities. We're the first people with no real practical need for each other. Everything comes from a great distance through anonymous and invisible transactions. We've taken that to be a virtue, but it's as much a curse. Americans are not very satisfied with their lives, and the loss of community is part of that.

We'd like to get the fossil fuel industry on the back foot for a while, having to deal with us.

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