The biggest missed opportunity for the climate movement was right after 9/11. The country was untied, motivated, and posed off. W could have told us to become energy independent or wean from fissile fuels, and we would have done it. We’d have done anything.

Instead W told us to go shop. And fight Afghanistan. And give up our freedoms to the surveillance state. So we did that instead. To our everlasting shame.

Right now, a majority of the country is pissed off and motivated against Trump. Most people see 200,000 dead Americans, and unprecedented attacks on our democracy. We are ready to DO the hard things.

We’re being told “go vote.” And we will. We absolutely will do that.

But if there was ever a time to massively reform our system of justice, it is NOW. The murder of George Floyd, the death of RBG, people are READY too look at a new way of doing things. People are ready to do what is hard.

I fear we are in danger of missing this moment, to our everlasting shame. There are big ideas. Great ideas. To bring JUSTICE FOR ALL. But we need leadership. We need leadership with a vision that is beyond “let’s just clean up this mess and get back to normal.”