When Your Science Runs Into A Policy

There's Something Really Happening And Really Moving, And It's Exciting And It Makes Me Very Optimistic Because It Is Going To Be The Engine For How We Really Combat Climate Change. Which Is Strong Communities.

It Is An Incredibly Hopeful Experience Watching Communities Come Together And Actually Reassemble Democracy. The Democracy's Been Taken Away From Us. But They're Reinventing Democracy Out There In Rural Pennsylvania, In Philadelphia, In Pittsburgh.

The Aquifer [is] The Water Table People Need To Keep Secure. Nature Has This Incredible System Of Water Purification Under The Ground. Ground Water Is Much Better To Drink Than Surface Water Because It Filters Out The Bacteria That Can Cause All Sorts Of Problems.

It's Remarkable To Watch The President, With All The Weight Of His Ability To Command Rhetoric With The Bully Pulpit Behind Him, Make A Clear Speech About Climate Change And Why That's So Important For Us All To Focus On. And That Is A Rather Remarkable Thing To See. It's Enormously Powerful.

I Don't Believe We're Only Motivated By Our Own Self-interests. Often Out Of Crisis Comes This Enormous Wellspring Of Generosity And Motivation.