Andrew Revkin

How do I put this tool today learning about what really happened with Ian the hurricane, you know, who was most at risk and how would you build forward better?

I hate build back.

Well, and this gets to the, you know, people who focus on communication science.

I'm not a scientist.

I write about this stuff.

If you're going to try to prod someone with a warning, like, this is three years apart.

Nuclear winter.

Global warming.

Well, yeah, we'll talk about it.

But look at that.

This is three years apart in the covers of a magazine.

But then you have to say to what end if you're not directing people to a basket of things to do.

And if you want political change, then it would be to support a politician.

If you want energy access, it would be to...

Look at this $370 billion the American government just put into play on climate and say, well, how can my community benefit from that?

And I've been told over and over again by people in government.

Jigar Shah, who heads this giant loan program in the energy department, he says, what I need now is like 19,500 people who are worried about climate change, maybe because Greta got them worried.

But here's the thing you could do.

You can connect your local government right now with these multimillion dollar loans so you can have electric buses instead of diesel buses.

And that's an action pathway.