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

It is unbelievably sad and ironic that the first victims of global warming are almost all going to come from places that are producing virtually none of the problem.

We’d won the argument 15 years before, we were just losing the fight. And so it became clear to some of us that we would need to organise to fight, that we weren’t going to win.

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

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 to work with businesses and shops to get them engaged in the same way.

[The Maldives] they’ve become deeply politically engaged – just for instance, the president taught his whole cabinet to scuba dive so they could hold an underwater cabinet meeting along their dying coral reef and pass a 350 resolution to send to the U.N.

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

The habits of the West in terms of consumption.

All things considered, the internet seems fairly environmentally benign to me. The last stats I saw showed you could do 1,000 Google searches for the gas it took to drive six-tenths of a mile. But the internet can’t substitute for real connection and community.

But the truth is that we could win every other fight that we face and if we lose the climate fight, the other victories will be pyrrhic. I don’t think even people who are worried about climate change quite understand the scale and speed with which we’re now shifting the planet.

Those of us in the west have figured out a lot of ways to damage the lives of poor people in this country and around the world over the years.

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 atmosphere over the oceans is a shocking five percent wetter, loading the dice for devastating floods.

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.

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

Between [Speaker of the House] Paul Ryan, [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell, and Donald Trump’s team, I don’t see a lot of openings for making real progress.

There are many places where we need to fight important battles to make sure that customers have access to solar.

I used to carry my father’s Bible and put it on the pulpit so he could preach.

Because my lower body is quiet, I need a full shoulder turn to generate power and speed. Keep your tempo smooth, and with the quiet lower body, you don’t have to worry about losing your balance.

I’m used to having money and the stuff I do, but it’s more of how I’m doing it now. I walk outside and people know me, and I really get paid for shows.

Sometimes I don’t use the words ‘will’ and ‘want’ in the right way.

When I was little, I used to adore gold. It was something special.

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

My life is to play golf, sit home with the wife and kids, and do things with the family more than I used to.

I saw them with my bodily eyes as clearly as I see you. And when they departed, I used to weep and wish they would take me with them.