Occupation: Environmentalist Birth: December 8, 1960
Delhi is locked in a complete choking smog at the moment - they've had to close schools in one of the world's biggest cities. They have their own rea….
In my own faith tradition, these questions have been very important. It has always been easiest for me to apprehend God in the natural world. I love ….
Where people aren't as deeply reliant on fossil fuel as in the United States, it's far easier for them to imagine change on this scale. When you go t….
If Apple is enslaving Chinese to make its iPhones, you don't need to eat the i-Phone, you need to make sure that Apple is paying a living wage to som….
Unfortunately, The End of Nature turns out to be correct, although I wish it were not so. The only places that I was incorrect was, as with environme….
The real tight interface is between the book and the reader-the world of the book is plugged right into your brain, never mind the [virtual reality] ….
But tolerance by itself can be a cover for moral laziness..
These things are happening in large measure because of us. We in this country burn 25 percent of the world's fossil fuel, create 25 percent of the wo….
From some tiny portion of the wealth the west accumulated in a hundred years of filling the atmosphere with carbon..
People in low-lying countries like Bangladesh with almost 140 million people who are managing to feed themselves, whose carbon emissions can't really….
To me, it's more important to take the 60-70% of people who really understand that there's a problem [of climate change] and get some percentage of t….
If [a student's] college’s endowment portfolio has fossil-fuel stock, then their educations are being subsidized by investments that guarantee they w….
I think that some of it is electoral - helping candidates that are willing to take dramatic actions, not just to say a few words about how climate ch….
If we were built, what were we built for? ... Why do we have this amazing collection of sinews, senses, and sensibilities? Were we really designed in….
In the States we've had by far the largest demonstrations in the last few years. The largest civil disobedience actions about anything in US history ….
All the science in the last few years, or almost all of it, really serves to show that the [climate] effects are larger and more rapid than we had th….
We also have to engage - and I think this is important - in national politics because there is no way to address questions of this scale in the short….
TV is sometimes accused of encouraging fantasies. Its real problem, though, is that it encourages-enforces, almost-a brute realism. It is anti-Utopia….
The world is on fire, and I'm doing my best to help steer the firetruck..
The laws of Congress and the laws of physics have grown increasingly divergent, and the laws of physics are not likely to yield..
In the end, climate change is a math problem..