“It’s more efficient to change your politician than to change your light bulb.” Fantastic insights and a call to action here from Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. My thanks to Casi Callaway and Tammy Herrington at Mobile Baykeeper for making this interview opportunity possible. Here is a clip of Kennedy, answering my question about what people can and should be doing in response to BP’s oil catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico. This is a brilliant mind at work…

“We’re funding both sides of the war on terror.”

“The only way we are gonna save the environment is if we restore democracy in our country and not let this country turn into a corporate plutocracy run by corporate elites inside the beltway, and instead democratize our energy systems so EVERY American is making a profit, and EVERY American has an opportunity to turn their home into a power plant, and turn themselves into an energy entrepreneur and power this country on our intellectual and entrepreneurial energies rather than on mid-eastern carbon.”

Another section I felt was worth transcribing:

“People say the Kyoto agreement will make us less competitive. This is insane! How’s it going to make us less competitive if we’re more efficient and if we’re energy independent? It’s going to make us MORE competitive. And the Chinese know this. The Chinese are now spending more on wind and solar than they are their military. These ‘narcissistic hacks’ who are running our Congress are arguing today about a bill that would increase wind deployment by 37% by 2020. The Chinese already commited to increase their wind deployment by 20,000% by 2020. They are flooding our country with wind and solar equipment and they intend to dominate this market. If we’re not careful… if they continue to guide us down this road… we’re gonna spend the next 100 years dependent on Chinese wind and solar technology. Is that where we want to go??”