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

Oil companies are radical because they're willing to alter the chemical composition of the atmosphere.

All the signs of incipient activism and uprising, from Tahrir square to Zuccotti Park to [the recent] shutdown of the Internet to protest web censorship. People are getting smart and getting connected.

I've spent my life living in rural America, some of it in blue state Vermont, some of it in red state upstate New York. They're quite alike in many ways. And quite wonderful. It's important that even in an urbanized and suburbanized country, we continue to take rural America seriously. And the thing that makes Vermont in particular so special, and I hope this book captures some of it, is the basic underlying civility of its political life. That's rooted in the town meeting. Each of the towns in Vermont governs itself.

We'll look for almost any reason not to change our attitudes; the inertia of the established order is powerful. If we can think of a plausible, or even implausible, reason to discount environmental warnings, we will.

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

Certainly, packets of sea ice, in say the Arctic, which have failed to fully reform in the last couple of years.