Thank you for being here and its amazing for me to be with david wallacewells who is one of our. His book the unknown earth is a must read. I was just telling him my daughters in high school and i only read on her own, which is wild for me. But shes recommend they get to everybody. Its a great way to understand, dan, the challenges of climate in our time ill say a few things the were going to go back and forth in a sense of of conversation but by saying just moments ago while we were here, the white house announced that john podesta is going to be taking over for john kerry was doing for the last three years as a socalled climate czar, podesta has been a key figure on policy with. Barack obama. But more than that, probably is almost done more for public lands, wilderness you know, National Forest than anybody. Hes been working the new america foundation. Hes a troubleshooter. We know he ran Hillary Hillary clintons campaign. But well see how elevates climate in. A president ial electio
Hello and welcome to the Commonwealth Club of california. Im Elizabeth Carney chair of the business and Leadership Forum and your host for an evening with rebecca solnit. And energizing case for hope about the climate. Also, with us, here on zoom, her coauthor thelma lutunatabua. How do i do . And her partner, fenton. And a small one that is really the whole reason why we worry about climate. So, thank you. Theyll join us for the first part of this program. From and then they will not have to stare and stay around for the whole thing, rebecca and i will have a conversation, theyll have some question and answer time together. We want to give everyone a chance to speak. So later in the program, please use the microphone, if youre coming up for a question, or if youre on youtube, use the chat box feature. Your participation in the program is really important to us. So we will try to get to everyone that we can. And now, its my pleasure, to introduce susan haymer. Shell give some backgroun
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