Bill McKibben

Can it get us out?

My guess is that the real question is how big a heart is that big brain attached to?

Do you know that joke about the guy who's in a flood and his house is flooding?

So he goes up on the roof and prays to God to come save him.

And a guy comes by in a boat and says, jump in.

He says, no, God's going to come save me.

A little while later, a guy comes by in a helicopter and

says, here, here's a rope, climb aboard.

And the guy says, no, God's going to save me.

And then a little while later, he drowns and he gets up to heaven.

And he says to God, I prayed to you, why didn't you save me?

And God said, well, I sent a boat, I sent a helicopter.

What did you want?

The miracle technology we've got, you can point a sheet of glass at the sun and produce an endless stream of electrons.

What do you want?

We've got it.

Now we just need to put it to use.

And

I have no idea what people are waiting for because the miracle, if we wanted it, I mean, that's magic.

That's Hogwarts scale magic.