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“Moving people to emotion is something we need to do as a climate movement.”
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“Bill McKibben is founder of Third Act, which organizes people over the age of 60 for action on climate and justice.”
“Very few books give people an inside look at how political change happens and how they could be a part of it.”
“activism Bill McKibben climate change climate crisis democracy Leah C.”
“Leah is a friend, I endorsed the book, and I turn up a couple of times in these pages myself.”
“How did your view of how a bill becomes a law change from the standard political science—or Schoolhouse Rock—version?”
“As for why Manchin voted for it—I did my best to get to the bottom of that.”
“BM: Let me ask another writing question.”
“Leah Stokes: I always wanted to write a book like this.”
“LS: While I was working on this bill, I became pregnant with twins, and it turned out to be a very high-risk pregnancy.”
“Policy work is about power, and people who feel they don’t have power sometimes attack the people closest to them rather than the ones who actually hold power.”
“I tried to humanize him and understand things from his perspective.”
“On this point, there’s actually a story about you in the book.”
“I was nervous going in, because this really is not an academic book.”
“Your book Oil and Honey is one example: that book lets people sit next to you through the campaign against the Keystone XL Pipeline and see what improvisational activism looks like.”
“Sometimes, a person would say something crisp on a call and I’d write it down as a quote.”
“You were quite unfairly attacked, in very personal terms, by some activists at the end of this.”
“It’s one thing to be attacked by the fossil fuel industry, and quite another to be attacked by your own side.”
“When we think about making the world safe for our kids, it’s usually in a narrow sense: get a car seat, plug the outlets.”
“BM: Your first book was an academic book—a well written, accessible one, but it was academic.”
“My daughters were born very early and very small, and in the end we spent 75 days in the NICU.”