My commencement address to the 2025 Climatebase fellows, June 06 2025

Thank you for that introduction and thank you to the Climatebase team and all the Fellows for having me back. It’s an honor to be here again, and to again get to experience the energy and enthusiasm you’ve all brought in this community.

I want to begin with a poem by Ricardo Levins Morales, entitled “Volcano”:

Power comes from below,
from the hidden places where it gathers,
until discovering itsel...