It's true that climate change is an unprecedented problem so it's not surprising that it's so difficult to address.

Since we're not very good at something as basic as controlling our reproduction, life is really bad for more people than ever before.

The very essence of civilized culture is that we deliberately institute, in advance of the happening of various contingencies and emergencies of life, devices for detecting their approach and registering their nature, for warding off what is unfavorable or at least for protecting ourselves from its full impact.

The only way major change in environmental policy is going to happen, the only way, is if there is a very strong, very active popular movement that demands it and such a movement would be unparalleled because it would be a popular movement that says, "Raise our taxes so that we change our behavior."

We're good at noticing sudden movements of middle size objects in our immediate visual field, but what is out of sight is for us is largely out of mind.

Philosophers are often actively disinterested in what happens between the cup and the lips (after all, that's "non-ideal theory").

We need more science, but what we especially need is science fiction.