People, Let's Get Our Carbon Down

Yearwood and McKibben realize that for a brief moment after the first Earth Day, it made perfect sense for the civil rights and environmental movements to be singing the same nine. Tragically, those movements soon diverged-diverged so far that some people still find it odd that activists are working side by side again on issues like global warming and poverty. But it makes perfect sense-there is no threat to social justice greater than the breakdown of earth's physical systems, and no way to ease that threat without rearranging power, both in America and around the world.