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

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

Community is as endangered by surplus as it is by deficit. If there is too much money floating around it enables people to have no need of each other.

The fact that Washington has been a complete logjam for anything for the last six years has got to change because we need to have federal policy that really allows us to move quickly and nimbly.

Ice in the West Antarctic and over Greenland, i.e., ice that's over a rock at the moment, that will raise the level of the sea as it slides into the ocean, putting at risk everyone and everything that lives on the coasts, and that includes an enormous percentage of the world's people.

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