"Scientists have told us what we must do and by when, and so legislators must do all they can to match those targets. The beauty of the Green New Deal legislation is not that it’s shiny or progressive or a poke in the eye to the oil companies. Its beauty is that it actually tries to meet the target that science has given us.

"The irony is that, when Senator Dianne Feinstein said she’s been 'doing this for thirty years,' she described the precise time period during which we could have acted."

—Bill McKibben