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GUEST: Wen Stephenson, independent journalist and climate justice activist, contributing writer at the Nation Magazine and former editor at the Atlantic. His new book is called What We are Fighting for Now Is Each Other: Dispatches From the Frontlines of Climate Justice.

The United States is among the leading producers of carbon per capita in the world. It has pioneered energy extraction and dragged its feet on carbon controls despite the evidence that piles up each day of the reality of climate change. Now, over the last few years especially, the US is finally a leading force in political activism around climate justice.

With the historic mobilizations in Washington DC around the Keystone XL Pipeline, and the People’s Climate March, as well as smaller convergences from Texas to Alaska, climate activism is thriving. And that is arguably the most important driver of change in salvaging humanity’s existence on the planet.