Permafrost in the soil [is melting], in the boreal and arctic areas in the world, and, probably even more alarming in the last six or eight months, the data on what is happening to the ice shelves in Greenland and the west Antarctic has begun to cause people to radically reassess the earlier conviction that those ice shelves were stable on a kind of century-long time scale.

Between [Speaker of the House] Paul Ryan, [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell, and Donald Trump's team, I don't see a lot of openings for making real progress.

We can no longer imagine that we are part of something larger than ourselves - that is what all this boils down to.

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

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

For the first time in 150 years, the USDA reported there were more farms in America, not fewer. That has to make you happy.

It drives me crazy to see so much of this planet's life so casually endangered. The first steps are so easy (drive smaller cars, for instance) that it's very hard to understand why we haven't taken them. But I know that this is the issue our generation will be judged by.