“Hurricane Sandy is a disturbing sign of things to come. We must heed this warning and act quickly to solve the climate crisis. Dirty energy makes dirty weather.”

A zebra can not change it’s spots.

Scientists with access to data from Navy submarines traversing underneath the North polar ice cap have warned that there is now a 75 percent chance that within five years the entire ice cap will completely disappear during the summer months.

In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?

The debate’s over. The people who dispute the international consensus on global warming are in the same category now with the people who think the moon landing was staged on a movie lot in Arizona.

We’re operating this planet like a business in liquidation.

Each and every one of us can make changes in the way we live our lives and become part of the solution [to climate change]

When fear displaces reason, the result is often irrational hatred and division.

The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences.

I think the fact that within the bitcoin universe an algorithm replaces the functions of the government is actually pretty cool. I am a big fan of bitcoin.

For me, the most disturbing aspect of the Republican political culture is how it puts its unquenchable thirst for power, domination and a radical ideology above facts, reason and the truth.

Distributed intelligence is the key to the advancement of human civilization. Dictatorships, communist countries, monarchies in the past all eventually collapsed because of their inefficiency in moving information.

We have a planetary emergency. We have to find a way to create, in the generation of those alive today, a sense of generational mission.

Making consumer choices that reward eco-friendly products and companies is a great way to start.

Our new technologies, combined with our numbers, have made us, collectively, a force of nature.

When it comes to climate, we can all make a big difference.

Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.

Maybe climate change is a threat, and maybe climate change has been tarted up by climatologists trolling for research grant cash. It doesn’t matter.

Human-caused climate change threatens almost every aspect of human existence.

We know we must address climate change.

And if those two other doctors get paid by Big Snack Food, like certain climate deniers get paid by Big Coal, I shouldn’t take their advice.

We need to start by having a conversation about climate change. It would be irresponsible to avoid the issue just because it’s uncomfortable to talk about.

The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important ’cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.

The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression.

We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.