New York City is one of the most vulnerable cities in the world to climate change, so I see Keystone as the central threat to New York.

I tend to think that knowledge is preceded by power instead of the other way around.

What I see increasingly is that companies are playing political roles. We should actually have our research and our laws map that.

It's a lot harder to push forward things, like energy policy. There's a big dream out there about wind and solar power.

I tend to be a kind of left federalist. There's a value to more power of certain kinds being positioned at a more local level.

You can't just provide power, you also need public education.

I think a lot of the reason people are attracted to the Keystone pipeline is because at least we're doing something. There's a fear that society will collapse if it's not acting. To contrast those actions with other actions is important in making it feel plausible. Maybe we must have the size of the dream meet the size of the threat.