Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

Is that true?

Yep.

Okay.

Shout out to Maggie Thomas for making that happen.

Love you, Maggie.

You know, doing that work of restoring wetlands, of managing wildfire risk, of helping people put solar panels on community centers, right?

Like the kinds of stuff that our taxpayer dollars should be supporting that kind of a program, right?

And you're training the next generation of leaders with like practical problem solving, like building our future world, right?

opportunities.

And so to see all of that get rolled back in the last year has been infuriating and heartbreaking because like we had all this momentum, right?

And it's been a major, major setback.

And of course, losing thousands of PhD scientists across the federal government who had all the knowledge of detailed information and like decades of research and

to help inform our policymaking, right?

So when I was updating this book for the paperback edition, I had to add all these footnotes

That were like the most depressing set of edits you could possibly have to make.

I'm like, well, this program doesn't exist anymore.

This funding doesn't exist anymore.

Like the Supreme Court just decided this shitty thing.

Jesus Christ.

These statistics are updated in the wrong direction.