115 Quotes by Jeff Goodell

One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America’s energy problems never give up.

Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry’s worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the moment to draw attention the environmental and public health risks of fracking.

The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call ‘external costs,’ like the health effects of air and water pollution.

For better or worse, the bulk of coal industry jobs are in Appalachia – and when that coal is gone, so are the jobs.

We are already engineering the Earth’s operating system by dumping billions of tons of greenhouse gases into it every year. We’re just doing it badly. Why not get good at it?

In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word ‘coal’ is a remarkable and unprecedented event.

Is it in our national interest to overheat the planet? That’s the question Obama faces in deciding whether to approve Keystone XL, a 2,000-mile-long pipeline that will bring 500,000 barrels of tar-sand oil from Canada to oil refineries on the Gulf of Mexico.

Will we welcome people who flee submerged coastlines and sinking islands – or will we imprison them?

This Dewdrop World is a beautiful, courageous, intimate film about love and loss. It may also be the deepest meditation on climate change that I’ve ever seen.