I'm Bill Moyers. It's good to have your ear. This week on Moorers & Company,

scientist, mother, and activist Sandra Steingraber faces jail time to protect our kids from toxic

trespassers in the environment.

My job is to go out there and stop it, to tell my children, look, climate change is a serious

problem.

It's a threat to your future, but mom is on the job.

We have an obligation on those of us in the public health community to ring the alarm bell

about this and say that shattering the bedrock of our nation and injecting it with toxic

chemicals to bring bubbles of methane out of it

is just not the way forward. It's a temporary solution that takes us nowhere good.

When we take away water, when we take away air, all bets are off.

Thanks for joining us.

This week in the streets of Boston, we were reminded once again that civilization is too often a thin veneer stretched across the passions of the human heart,

with those who would commit acts of violence trying to

disrupt and even destroy the fragile commons we call society.

Fortunately, there are people who will not be deterred from the work of civilization, who will

even from time to time go up against authority in peaceful disobedience, taking a nonviolent

stand for a greater good.

People like Sandra Steingraber, my guest.

We met for this conversation the day before she was to be sentenced to jail.

It's quite a story.

At the age of 20, Sandra Steingraber was diagnosed with bladder cancer.

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