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MEERA SUBRAMANIAN’s article “United in Change” (Winter 2019) is novel, bold, and inspiring. In response to the 2016 election and an ever-widening partisan divide on climate change crisis, she journeys across “really red” country to hear conservative voices. I applaud her aim to listen, not lecture, and to set aside her inclination to gather facts and go “searching for stories instead.”

I was curious to see whether she would find a crack in conservative views. Farmers are practical people. When their crops wither, their livestock starve, when pastures and forests are razed by the worst fires on record (as is happening in my country of Australia as I