The end of nature sours all my material pleasures. The prospect of living in a genetically engineered world sickens me. And yet it is toward such a world that our belief in endless material advancement hurries us. As long as that desire drives us, here is no way to set limits.

Irene's got a middle name, and it's Global Warming.

My goal was to have as many of the primary sources as I could made available for people to look at and understand. Climate change is probably the most important thing that's ever happened, and yet people's understanding of it and its history remains a little fuzzy.

The laws of Congress and the laws of physics have grown increasingly divergent, and the laws of physics are not likely to yield.

You can have a healthy fossil-fuel balance sheet, or a relatively healthy planet

I think the world on the other side of fossil fuel is more local - the logic of sun and wind is diffuse and spread out, not concentrated like the logic of coal and oil.

I'm not sure I'm a very good source of advice since we're kind of making this up as we go along.