Alys Campaigne, the Southern Environmental Law Center's climate initiative leader, reflects on three decades of climate advcocacy, where the same arguments keep resurfacing even as the impacts grow impossible to ignore. She explains how real progress happens when we drop polarizing labels, make the issue local and personal, and help people see how climate solutions connect to their daily lives, wallets, and communities. Campaigne exposes the role of coordinated disinformation while showing why hope, bottom-up action, and shared values still create unlikely alliances. It’s a candid look at what it means to stay in a daunting, existential fight and why it’s still worth pushing forward.

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