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

I think we have a very brief window of opportunity to deal with climate change. No longer than a decade at most.

The climate dice are now loaded. Some seasons still will be cooler than the long-term average, but the perceptive person should notice that the frequency of unusually warm extremes is increasing. It is the extremes that have the most impact on people and other life on the planet.

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

Well, you know what happens to crime when the heat goes up.

The most difficult task, phase-out over the next 20-25 years of coal use that does not capture CO₂, is Herculean, yet feasible when compared with the efforts that went into World War II. The stakes, for all life on the planet, surpass those of any previous crisis. The greatest danger is continued ignorance and denial, which could make tragic consequences unavoidable.

The democratic process is supposed to be one person one vote, but it turns out that money is talking louder than the votes.