Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?

In reality, studies show that investments to spur renewable energy and boost energy efficiency generate far more jobs than oil and coal.

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.

Ethanol doesn't burn cleaner than gasoline, nor is it cheaper.

But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.

Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.

So if you want to know how Exxon Mobil can make $10 billion profit in 90 days, just look around. The whole world was built for them.

Coal boosters like to tout coal as cheap and plentiful - well, not anymore. At least not in China.

When it comes to global warming, coal is the gorilla in the room.

If we drill the hell out of everything, including protected public lands and fragile regions like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, America can emerge as an 'energy superpower.'

The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.

I would know you anywhere for my true love. Whoever I was and whoever you were, I would know you at once for my true love.

No matter how beautiful a rose is it must still grow in dirt.

Women's bodies do not give up their babies so easily, and so silently, is the message. The heart will always remember.

It is a cheering thought to think that God is on the side of the best digestion.

Sick kids almost never go to their father's side of the bed to announce they're going to barf.

In silence more work can be done. The true experience of bliss is without words.

You'll remember someone who broke your heart, and you'll think to yourself, 'Oh yes, I remember how that feels.' But you can't.

I think that The Great Gatsby has had some influence on contemporary dressing. I'm seeing more boyish haircuts and drop-waist sheath dresses.

I think life is too short not to be doing something which you really believe in.

What is down will go up. At the same time, you have to be prepared for what is up to go down.