The seas will continue to rise no matter who gets elected president.

If we're interested in the continuation of the human experiment we need to focus on resilience and coping with change (whether natural or anthropogenic) rather than living as if God or nature has given us a nice, orderly, calm, Babbit-like existence.

Every country now has its own domestic political debate about how to respond to climate change. This is where the action is.

We think of history as another specialization, like philosophy of language, rather than as something that informs everything we do and think.

Environmental problems provoke challenges about what kind of world we want, how important we think it is if something is brought about by human action or by brute nature, what we think of the value of human life compared to that of other living things.

If you look globally you see a patchwork of jurisdictions (nations, states, provinces, cities) that have taken aggressive action on climate change, and a patchwork of jurisdictions that have not. These various policies reflect the politics of each jurisdiction and the values of its citizens.

Climate change involves fundamental choices about how we want to live and what kind of world we want.