My district has been hit with three 500-year floods in the last several years, so either you believe that we had a one-in-over-100-million probability that occurred, or you believe as I do that there's a new normal, and we have changing weather patterns, and we have climate change. This is the science.
Greenhouse gas pollution, through its contribution to global climate change, presents a significant threat to Americans' health and to the environment upon which our economy and security depends.
The forces that are in play on climate change essentially revolve around the generation of power, the transportation of goods and services and people, and the sorts of materials that we use to fuel the whole of our civilisation.
All the major problems of the world today are global in essence, and they cannot be solved unless through some kind of global cooperation. It's not just climate change, which is, like, the most obvious example people give. I think more in terms of technological disruption.
Nuclear tests poison the environment - and they also poison the political climate. They breed mistrust, isolation and fear.
At some point, policymakers will get around to dealing with additional policies around climate in ways to incentivize certain behaviors.
Veganism is an answer for almost every problem facing the world in terms of hunger and climate change.
The average ordinary citizen can do a lot of different things when it comes to the climate crisis.
I believe climate change is real - and I believe we have to act to protect the climate as fast as we possibly can.
We live in an interconnected world, in an interconnected time, and we need holistic solutions. We have a crisis of inequality, and we need climate solutions that solve that crisis.
As long as the wrong people hold power, how can the right political climate even arise?