Diverging Paths on Earth Day

I biked west to Juilliard Park in Santa Rosa to join the march for science on Earth Day. My guess is that between 500 and 1.000 people were gathered there, and they weren't the usual folks. This crowd was younger, better dressed and whiter than I'm used to. I spotted maybe two people of color and no one that I recognized, other than Supervisor Linda Hopkins. I was glad we had her support, but why did she build her talk around Dr. Seuss? Why would anyone do that? In the old days, classy speakers built their talks around terrible misreadings of Robert Frost. I biked home on the road not taken.