Only in the last few years did the science crystallize, revealing the urgency - our planet really is in peril. If we do not change course soon, we will hand our children a situation that is out of their control.
James HansenJail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights.
James HansenI 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.
James Hansen