“We wanted to act out an American movie and shoot and shoot and shoot and shoot. We wanted to burn down the world like American actors.”

Here was a woman who had lived through a dictatorship, been through three marriages, and built a brilliant career in a relentlessly male-dominated field. And she was happy.

“As for the music of ghosts, it is a curse to die a stranger.”

For young organizers failed by the institutional climate movement, is there anything worth saving? It seems the center of the negotiations may no longer be the COP but the flotilla — mobile, networked, and ever-multiplying, even as the institution recedes.