At this point, with the kind permission of the Conspiracy Theorist in Chief, we can reasonably hope that, come Jan. 20, we will return to government policies based on science and data. We can expect the climate emergency, environmental justice, and the need for a clean energy economy to be front and center in those policies, and that the United States, as the president-elect has promised, will start taking action on a scale commensurate with the challenge, finally integrating climate change into our foreign policy, trade policy, and national security strategies. The incoming administration has promised it will have the backs of vulnerable communities against big polluters that have been trashing them with impunity; start dismantling the racial, gender, and income-based disparities in our criminal justice system; and end the spectacle of a downplayed pandemic handled like a fumbled football instead of a public health emergency.