Mae Jemison, an astronaut with down to Earth wisdom on climate change | Lucy Siegle
by Lucy Siegle from on (#4D33C)
Her time in space gives her a singular perspective on the travails besetting the planet
In the manner of a droid desperately seeking a docking station, I am constantly searching for a leader who can offer me some direction and energy in the battle for the biosphere. Until now, there's been something of a leadership void. Anyone who so much as uttered the words "climate change" might find me looking up at them, awaiting instruction.
Now I feel like I can pick and choose. Perhaps it's because people are competing with Greta Thunberg, the teenage agitator behind the climate strikes, but good adults are stepping into the limelight.
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