Americans dont pay much attention to environmental issues, because they arent sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesnt get anybodys pulse racing. – Jeff Goodell
Maybe more climate activists will think about the climate change not as an international problem to be resolved in an air-conditioned meeting hall, but as a guerilla war to be fought in the streets. – Jeff Goodell
Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business. – Jeff Goodell
Drill everything, mine everything, roll back regulations, tweak the science, expedite permits. Sound familiar? The Republicans offer up more 19th-Century solutions to our 21st-Century energy problems. – Jeff Goodell
The industrial processes in use today were developed at a time when no one had to consider what the environmental impact was. Who cared? But making ecological concerns matter to a companys bottom line will help it do the research and development that will reinvent everything we buy. – Daniel Goleman