a group of kids from my neighborhood were in the middle of it all especially this one girl iliana. her first job out of college was with americorps climate restoring wetlands and by use and coastal louisiana. most of her friends included some oil workers in transition. they took apart old pipelines and got to work with the same salary and benefits. of course when it came to healing the land we had huge gaps in our knowledge. let lee indigenous communities offered generational expertise to help guide the way. the iliana trader hand as his solar plant engineer for a while but eventually made her career raising the next generation as part of the universal childcare initiative. as it turns out caring for others works and we started paying real money to folks like teachers and home health aides. those were years of massive change and not all of it was good. hurricane sheldon hit southern california parts of miami when underwater for the last time but as we battled the floods and fires we knew how we were to have started acting when we did. we didn't just change the infrastructure. we ch