We should stop calling ourselves environmentalists - and just call ourselves patriots.

I consider myself to be sort of a progressive Afrofuturist that is deeply committed to social justice.

Rich countries do civil wars with tweets and votes.

If people leave your coalition, whose fault is it? It's your fault. You have to build a coalition that's attractive to people.

All humans have fear, and those of us who are fortunate have faith.

Now we stand at our own crossroads, looking out upon two futures: one with rising temperatures, rising oceans, and rising violence on a hot and strip-mined planet and another with expanding organic harvests, growing solar arrays, and deepening global partnerships on a green and thriving Earth.

Americans need to see people who are honestly trying to learn from each other, even as we make our own points powerfully and fight for our own values and policies.