Suzette Brooks Masters

I think is a really powerful one.

I know it's been used a lot, but I think if our politics ended up being about stewardship and feeling the duty of being a good ancestor, right?

Because I think if we take it out of politics and ideology,

It doesn't matter who you are.

You are connected to other people.

Those people are of different ages.

Whether you call it climate change or you call it weather disasters, people know that things are changing.

I think the more we can do to

Move away.

I said this earlier.

Move away from coded language and get back to the things that people know are real, which is they care about their families.

They want grandchildren to have a world that isn't a dystopian hellscape.

I think we need to start getting away from technocratic jargon.

And move towards how do we want to live?

How do we want to live together?

How do we safeguard our collective futures?

And I think one of the biggest challenges, though, that I that I think is going to be particularly difficult to tackle in the U.S.,

is we need policies that are in our collective self-interest, but we are in an immensely individualistic country.

And I feel like this mythology around individual rights and how linked they are to the American ethos

I think are a huge, huge barrier to progress.