But we need to be very clear: because of our decades of collective denial, no gradual, incremental options are now available to us.

Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.

Regardless of the overall state of the economy, there is now a large enough elite made up of new multi-millionaires and billionaires for Wall Street to see the group as "superconsumers," able to carry consumer demand all on their own.

You actually cannot sell the idea of freedom, democracy, diversity, as if it were a brand attribute and not reality -- not at the same time as you're bombing people, you can't.

The parties with the most gain never show up on the battlefield.

Our enslavement to oil has required the repression of millions of Arab people. As they shake off their bonds, so must we.

So we are left with a stark choice: allow climate disruption to change everything about our world, or change pretty much everything about our economy to avoid that fate. But we need to be very clear: because of our decades of collective denial, no gradual, incremental options are now available to us.