Here, there's more of a movement, it doesn't mean we're winning any more, but we're at least fighting.

We just see a sort of cascading amount of data of the damage that is being done by those increased temperatures.

Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign donations from big energy companies.

We have to figure out ways to scare and entice our leaders more effectively than the fossil fuel industry has managed to scare and entice them. They've got the big checkbooks. We've got to have the big crowd.

I try not to be either optimistic or pessimistic. I try not to think about outcomes on that scale. My job, it seems to me, is to wake up every morning and figure out how to cause as much trouble for the fossil fuel industry as I can.

I think the best way is to keep stressing, that, as we build out a new energy system, one of the best things about it, if we do it right, will be that it will be more local, more democratic, more distributed, and, in the long run, much more economically sensible.

I think we need to go straight at the fossil fuel industry.