“Those of us alive today are the first generation to know we live in the Age of Global Warming. We may also be the last generation to have a chance of doing something about it. Our forebears had the excuse of ignorance. Our descendants will have the excuse of helplessness. We have no excuse.”

—from Fast Forward: Ethics and Politics in the Age of Global Warming by W. Antholis and S. Talbot from the Brookings Institute