I'm far less a leader than a writer.

When you are in a hole, stop digging!

The earth is a museum of divine intent.

In the end, climate change is a math problem.

The habits of the West in terms of consumption.

Irene's got a middle name, and it's Global Warming.

Solar power seems to be truly bipartisan in its appeal.

But tolerance by itself can be a cover for moral laziness.

I think we need to go straight at the fossil fuel industry.

TV makes it so easy to postpone living for another half hour.

Climate change is a huge problem, an almost insoluble problem.

Environmentalism, I'd always been told, was just rich white people.

We have assumed control where once we worked with what we were given.

I think [George W.] Bush has done nothing right about global warming.

Katrina opened a good door and Al Gore went through it with his movie.

Everything that the administration has done has been counterproductive.

The world is on fire, and I'm doing my best to help steer the firetruck.

Renewable energy is far more labor-intensive than fossil fuel production.

If it's wrong to wreck the planet, it's wrong to profit from the wreckage.

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

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

By themselves, they are not enough; we also need to engage in political action.

You can have a healthy fossil-fuel balance sheet, or a relatively healthy planet

One degree turns out to be enough to really unhinge all sorts of earth's ecosystems.

Policies that engage us again in the international fight for real climate protection.

The roof of my house is covered in solar panels. When Im home, Im a pretty green fellow.

In reality, climate change is actually the biggest thing thats going on every single day.

The roof of my house is covered in solar panels. When I'm home, I'm a pretty green fellow.

In reality, climate change is actually the biggest thing that's going on every single day.

The world hasn't ended, but the world as we know it has-even if we don't quite know it yet.

I guess the underlying principle might be, don't make it too easy for them to stereotype you.

We'd like to get the fossil fuel industry on the back foot for a while, having to deal with us.

I'm not sure I'm a very good source of advice since we're kind of making this up as we go along.

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

We have built a greenhouse, a human greenhouse, where once there bloomed a sweet and wild garden.

Advent: the time to listen for footsteps - you can't hear footsteps when you're running yourself.

My house is covered in solar panels, I'm a great believer in all this - we all should be doing this.

There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it's not really there.

The ability to write compelling emails may be the single most useful talent an organizer can possess.

We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.

Here, there's more of a movement, it doesn't mean we're winning any more, but we're at least fighting.

Oil companies are radical because they're willing to alter the chemical composition of the atmosphere.

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

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

A price on carbon sufficient to keep 80% of current reserves underground, rebated directly to citizens.

Look - every time is the wrong time and the perfect time to have a kid, and you just do it when you can.

Colonialism of one kind or another, imperialism of one kind or another, and slavery, and on and on and on.

When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic.

what you do every day is what forms your mind and precious few of us can or would spend most days outdoors.

The thing about global warming is that you can address it on a great number of levels - in fact you have to.

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