Authors and activists Annie Leonard and Andre Carothers are optimistic about the future. It’s the present that gives them pause.
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“If one takes the longer view,” Leonard said in a conversation with Yale Climate Connections before their appearance at Washington, D.C.’s Busboy’s and Poets, “we’ve made a lot of progress. “Fifty years ago, a woman couldn’t have a credit card without her husband’s permission.”
“When I was born,” Carothers added, “there were still segregated water fountains across the South.”
But there has been a backlash to hard-won rights and freedoms.
