01/08/2009
https://www.congress.gov...
"We should levy an annual tax on net wealth from 1 percent to as high as 8 percent."
"If we do nothing, the effects of climate change will lead to the deaths of 1.5 million people across the globe every single year."
"In the end, sadly, history is likely to judge the actions of the CEOs of fossil fuel companies as causing more death and more human misery than the tobacco industry."
"In my view, we have got to make it clear to the fossil fuel industry that their short-term profits are not more important than the future of our planet."