Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up. – Jeff Goodell
In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010. – Jeff Goodell
In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I was taught in fifth-grade American government class, we elect presidents to do more than crass political calculations. – Jeff Goodell
Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns. – Jeff Goodell
Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. Its our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them. – Malcolm Turnbull