When I first started on this—our crisis of the biosphere and inequality and democracy—I thought, Great! Look at this huge problem someone’s left for me! I’ll just—” She whipped her free hand like she was spinning a globe. “I’ll knock this out in a couple years, no problem. I’ll give a few speeches, rile folks up, elect the right people, get the right laws passed, and we’ll all be knocking back beers at the bar in no time. I had so much energy and eagerness and just—hope! I had so much hope.”
