The climate renegade Vox.com
Javier Zarracina/Vox What happens when someone wants to go it alone on fixing the climate? Deep in the ocean west of British Columbia, salmon eat fish and plankton before they head inland to spawn. Well-fed enough to make it upriver, they swim back toward the coast and past the islands of Haida Gwaii, where the area’s indigenous population fishes them. That’s how it was for decades. But in the 2000s, fish populations were declining, and unemployment among the Haida was high. Enter an eccentric San Francisco-based entrepreneur named Russ George. He had spent much of his career bouncing betwe…