Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights.

Until the public demands otherwise, the policy makers will continue to serve their financiers.

What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet.

The United States did not sign Kyoto, yet its emissions are not that different from the countries that did sign it.

Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.

At the same time the folk boom was happening, the civil rights movement was happening, the anti-war movement was happening, the ban the bomb movement was happening, the environmental movement was happening. There was suddenly a generation ready to change the course of history.

More climate-friendly, coordinated laws, policies, and incentives are needed.

Well, I think I was always sort of reflecting where I was and my sense of surroundings and ecology, urban or country, or foreign, living in Europe, very affected by all of that.