We're not at the point of trying to stop global warming; it's too late for that. We're trying to keep it from becoming a complete and utter calamity

I think that so far the political and economic power of the fossil fuel industry has trumped all else.

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

It's our own throat that we are cutting in the end along with everyone else's. We need to be exercising precisely the kind of leadership that might allow us to nudge China and India, say, onto different energy trajectories, in order to improve our own chances of surviving this century.

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

Those of us in the west have figured out a lot of ways to damage the lives of poor people in this country and around the world over the years.

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.