Occupation: Environmentalist Birth: December 8, 1960
... the constant flow of images undercuts the sense that there's actually something wrong with the world. How can there really be a shortage of whoop….
With each month that passes, a solar panel gets 2 or 3 percent cheaper. So while we're holding the fossil fuel industry in check, the engineers in th….
The idea that China and India will just abandon climate action is not true, because they're doing it for more reasons than we are..
We'd already lost the possibility of stopping global warming entirely. That hasn't been in the cards for a long time. The triumph of Trump probably m….
Oil companies are radical because they're willing to alter the chemical composition of the atmosphere..
Everything that the administration has done has been counterproductive..
We just see a sort of cascading amount of data of the damage that is being done by those increased temperatures..
Advent: the time to listen for footsteps - you can't hear footsteps when you're running yourself..
I think we need to think of lots of ways to communicate. And we tried some at 350. We organised what they called the largest art project in the plane….
We've abnegated the Kyoto treaty, we've instituted a voluntary program that's obviously not been working, we've taken every effort to excise referenc….
I'm far less a leader than a writer..
We've been in lots of places that I suppose, by Oxford standards, would be considered illiterate, but everyone's completely conversant with the idea ….
You can have a healthy fossil-fuel balance sheet, or a relatively healthy planet.
TV, and the culture it anchors, masks and drowns out the subtle and vital information contact with the real world once provided. There are lessons, e….
I'm probably the wrong person to ask. My partner in much of this work [climate movement], who really came up with the divestment campaign with me, Na….
If the Holy Spirit is capable of the heavy lifting required to get Pat Robertson to change his mind, then that strikes me as a very good sign..
There's no huge mystery. If you dig up huge amounts of carbon, huge amounts of ancient biology, hundreds of millions of year's worth of ancient biolo….
what you do every day is what forms your mind and precious few of us can or would spend most days outdoors..
There hadn't really been a climate movement, per se. I think everyone spent twenty years thinking that if we just keep pointing out that the world is….
I think it's going to be a tough century; I also think people are starting to rise up, and that a growth in human solidarity will help compensate for….
Especially in recent years, the more and more we understand what we are doing, the more we have the science to tell us what we're doing, the fact tha….