People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.

We can now destroy or we can cherish-the choice is ours.

Climate change will affect the whole of humanity, while terrorist attacks will only affect a small section of humanity. Of course, you wouldn't say that if you were related to someone who had been beheaded or blown up or murdered.

Humanity is facing a very big, slow, long, drawn-out threat, and that is to do with the way the weather is changing and the size of the population.

[W]hen we look at the graphs of rising ocean temperatures, rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and so on, we know that they are climbing far more steeply than can be accounted for by the natural oscillation of the weather ... What people (must) do is to change their behavior and their attitudes ... If we do care about our grandchildren then we have to do something, and we have to demand that our governments do something.

Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.

Now, I find that very difficult to reconcile with notions about a merciful God.