[on Climate Change:] What If

Because It Is Such A Huge Crisis, Because It Puts Us On A Firm Science-based Deadline, It's A Once-in-a-century Opportunity To Build A Better Society And Address Raging Inequality, Create Huge Numbers Of Jobs, Rebuild Our Public Infrastructure. But, We Can't Do It Unless We Break Every Single Rule In The Free-market Playbook. Which Is Why The Worst People In The World All Deny Climate Change.

[on Climate Change:] What If It's All A Hoax And We've Created A Better World For Nothing?

It Doesn't Have The Ability To Think Rationally This Economic Model. It Thinks Like A Drug Addict: 'where Can I Get My Next Fix?' It Doesn't Learn Wisely. Any Kind Of Measure Of Natural Wisdom Would Be: You Make A Mistake, You Correct It The Next Time Around. But A Drug Addict Feels Terrible... And Then Says: 'i Want More'. Unfortunately We Have An Economic Model That Thinks Like A Crack Addict.

This Same Economic System, Based On Short-term Growth And Endless Profits Is Also The Reason For Pretty Much Everything Else That Is Lousy In Our Society, From Private Prisons To Fox News. What I'm Arguing Is That, In Fact, What We've Been Told Is A Lie.

If Enough Of Us Stop Looking Away And Decide That Climate Change Is A Crisis Worthy Of Marshall Plan Levels Of Response, Then It Will Become One.