There is basically no one not on the payroll of Exxon Mobil or coal companies who any longer contend that this is not something to worry about..

A third of summer sea ice in the Arctic is gone, the oceans are 30 percent more acidic, and since warm air holds more water vapor than cold, the atmo….

Our weird problem is an abundance of resources and a shortage of hard economic reasons not to use them..

The latest computer modeling I've seen indicates that at mid-century, there might be 150 million people classified as "environmental refugees.".

I'm guessing the most efficient way would be to transfer an awful lot of technology, but also direct aid to deal with climate emergencies already und….

Fossil fuel is very seductive stuff. [John Maynard] Keynes once said that, as far as he could tell, the average standard of living from the beginning….

You think OWS is radical? You think 350.org was radical for helping organize mass civil disobedience in D.C. in August against the Keystone Pipeline?….

We can either save the planet from catastrophic warming, or protect fossil fuel CEOs. Not both. Do the math(s).

We couldn't outspend the fossil fuel industry - they have more money than God..

There's always the danger that people will simply sign online petitions, the way they used to just mail in checks, and there's the greater possibilit….

We're putting more carbon into the atmosphere than the atmosphere can absorb. And everybody told us when we started, coz we knew nothing when we star….

It's our own throat that we are cutting in the end along with everyone else's. We need to be exercising precisely the kind of leadership that might a….

I think that so far the political and economic power of the fossil fuel industry has trumped all else..

No one is strong enough  -  given the magnitude of the task, everyone has to step up their game..

I've spent my life living in rural America, some of it in blue state Vermont, some of it in red state upstate New York. They're quite alike in many w….

We have to get our states to adopt what are called "renewable portfolio standards" pledging to use a lot of renewable energy by 2015 or 2020. We have….

we use TV as we use tranquilizers- to even things out, to blot out unpleasantness, to dilute confusion, distress, unhappiness, loneliness..

Warm air holds more water vapor than cold, and so the atmosphere is about 4% wetter than it was 40 years ago. This loads the dice for flood and droug….

Until it's understood to involve justice for those in poverty, a future for generations yet unborn, and a commitment to the rest of creation, it's un….

I think that it is impossible to think of a threat to social justice greater than what we are doing to the earth's atmosphere at the moment..

Sometimes, I, anyway, get tired of playing defence, and like to play offence..