How can we expect black Americans to focus on climate when we are so at risk on our streets, in our communities, and even within our own homes? How c… - Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

this is a chickens-coming-home-to-roost moment. And I’m seeing a lot of my friends who — sort of aware, of course, that climate change is happening, but hasn’t really, like, hit them — we’re seeing people wake up right now.

I think it’s so funny that people say it’s too expensive to solve climate change, because it’s just like, what’s your alternative?

this idea that we can be motivated by love, I think it’s just — it’s just the more delightful way to approach something that is the work of our lifetimes: to do it, thinking about not just the love of other species, but the love of other humans, the love of ecosystems, the love of places. I mean, we all have places that we’re deeply attached to, and many of them are changing for the worse. And so this potential to have that be our driving force is, to me, why I focus on solutions instead of raging against the machine.