Remember the excitement and energy around the global climate strike of September 2019? More than 6 million workers and students took to the streets demanding urgent action to save the planet. Schools and workplaces were shuttered as hundreds of thousands of people swarmed the streets of major cities around the globe, declaring no more business as usual. Worker walkouts forced politicians and corporations like Amazon to issue loud (if inadequate) pledges to invest billions in mitigating climate change.

While not at critical mass, the climate movement had momentum. And notably, it was beginning to take aim at the commanding heights of capitalism.

And then? Then the movement sputtered.