Coal is the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet.

Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights.

Burning all the fossil fuels will destroy the planet we know, Creation, the planet of stable climate in which civilization developed.

The climate system is being pushed hard enough that change will become obvious to the man in the street in the next decade.

Global warming has already triggered a sea level rise that could reach from 6 metres (19.69 ft) to 25 metres (27.34 yards).

I was lucky to grow up at a time when it was not difficult for the child of a tenant farmer to make his way to the state university.

'Cap and trade' generates special interests, lobbyists, and trading schemes, yielding non-productive millionaires, all at public expense. The public is fed up with such business. Tax with 100% dividend, in contrast, would spur our economy, while aiding the disadvantaged, the climate, and our national security.