The first sign of tyranny is government's complicity in privatizing the commons for private gain.

Resurrecting American democracy is vital to averting climate catastrophe. We must first repeal the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, which has flooded elections with billions of oily petrodollars from carbon tycoons.

There are two reforms that we need to restore our democracy. The first is campaign finance. We need to get the corporate money out of the election process. And second, we need to resolve the dysfunction in the environment. Looters are running agencies that are supposed to be protecting us from pollution.

American democracy is supposed to be the paradigm for the rest of the world.

We're not protecting the environment for the sake of the fishes and the birds. We're protecting it for our own sake.

The first sign of tyranny is government's complicity in privatizing the commons for private gain.

The factory meat industry has polluted thousands of miles of America's rivers, killed billions of fish, pushed tens of thousands of family farmers off their land, sickened and killed thousands of U.S. citizens, and treated millions of farm animals with unspeakable and unnecessary cruelty.