The Activist Confronting Climate Criminals
Michael Greenberg
Three years ago, Michael Greenberg founded Climate Defiance on a simple premise: the climate movement had grown too polite to win. So Climate Defiance started showing up where decisions actually get made — private fundraisers, intimate breakfasts at Exxon lobbyists' kitchen tables, $2,500-a-plate steakhouse dinners — and refusing to leave quietly. In this conversation with David Fenton, Greenberg makes the case for using humor as a strategy and traces the group's evolution from a single White House Correspondents' Dinner blockade to a national network that has helped override gubernatorial vetoes, protect millions of acres from drilling, and ruin a remarkable number of cocktail hours.