"Imagine there was a truck heading directly for your children. What would you do? Surely everything in your power to save them, including jumping in its way? Catherine McKenna, formerly the Canadian minister for environment and climate change, borrows this analogy for the climate crisis from a colleague to argue that we need to use all the tools at our disposal to tackle devastating danger that is already with us."
"Peppered with inspirational quotes, personal photos and campaign memorabilia, Run Like a Girl isn't a straightforward memoir. She wrote it for women and young people who want to make change. Despite the upbeat tone, McKenna is forthright about thorny issues, such as the sexism she experienced while in office; one Conservative opponent referred to her as climate Barbie. She has received a barrage of online abuse, including death threats."
"There are a lot of amazing young people who are doing amazing things, McKenna says. But it can be hard and demoralising. She doesn't want people to give up, however. The important thing, she says, is to keep trying. While her grandfather was a member of the Irish Volunteers and her father was an old-school Pierre Trudeau liberal, McKenna didn't set out to become a politician."
Catherine McKenna uses a vivid truck-and-children analogy to argue for using all available tools to confront the climate crisis now. She published Run Like a Girl to document time in government and to encourage women and young people to pursue change. The book mixes inspirational quotes, personal photos and campaign memorabilia rather than serving as a conventional memoir. McKenna recounts sexism in office, a barrage of online abuse and death threats, and a frightening incident where a man swore at and filmed her and her three children. She urges persistence, praises young activists, and critiques prominent political figures.
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