One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it wont jump out. Instead, it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to be doing pretty much the same thing. – Jeff Goodell
In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no respect. – Jeff Goodell
Climate change is a global issue – from the point of view of the Earths climate, a molecule of CO2 emitted in Bejing is the same as a molecule emitted in Sydney. – Jeff Goodell
Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up. – Jeff Goodell
I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass of opinion, the slow pace of change were used to will no longer be the norm. I see a lot of signs every day that were moving closer and closer to that tipping point. – Al Gore