Bill McKibben

And you should find people doing this work.

If you're under 30, the Sunrise Movement, the people who brought us the Green New Deal, they're fantastic.

If you're over 60, the Third Act, tell your grandparents about it.

If you're in the middle, there's lots of people, the Sierra Club and Greenpeace and a thousand other smaller groups at work on this, but all working in pretty much common consort.

One of the things that they're focused on now is trying to keep the financial system from continuing to finance the expansion of fossil fuels.

At Third Act, we just coordinated a big day of action against the four biggest banks in the country, Chase, Citi, Wells Fargo, Bank of America.

We had hundreds and some demonstrations with us experienced Americans sitting in rocking chairs in front of all the banks, because those four banks are the four biggest lenders in the world to the fossil fuel industry.

If you want to have something that impacts how this plays out, not just in America, but in

India and China and around the world.

That's one of the places to start.

I think by far the most comfortable city and I've ever participated.

I actually think it is one of the things that plays a role.

I mean, this is obviously the grimmest possible topic and grimmer for many other people more than for me.

I mean, climate change hits hardest those who've done the least to cause it all over the world.

But you need a sense of

You need a sense of anger at the institutions, the companies, the politicians that have kept us on this path.

You need a sense of humor in order to keep from crying sometimes.

You need, I think, some kind of connection with the natural world just to be grounded and to remember just how beautiful our planet still is, even in its kind of desperate state at the moment.

And you need, above all, I think, a sense of solidarity.

You cannot do this kind of work on your own.