A green economy begins to replace some of the clunking and chugging of ugly machines with the wise effort of beautiful, skilled people. That means more jobs.

I am for literally all of the underdogs that I can command and demand better of everyone, including myself.

Well, we in America are about to break up with oil. Why not break up with poverty and discrimination too?

As champions of green jobs, we're asking questions that progressives should like, like "How are we going to avoid baking the planet," and "How are we going to create jobs for ordinary Americans?" Meanwhile, we're offering solutions that conservative should like. I'm not calling for more welfare; I'm calling for more work.

If someone like myself, who is married to a white woman, who has spent my entire life building bridges, can't point out the alt-right whitelash reaction without being accused of being a racial polemecist, we're going to have a big problem.

Sometimes we overemphasize the political system. There are other ways to make a difference. There's technology, there's media, there's business.

Progressives are overreacting .Underreacting, though, to the - what the real threats are, and the real opportunities.