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.
Sturgeon was extremely lucky and often wrong, sometimes seriously so. There are examples of all these qualities in her newly published memoir, Frankly.