More than 400,000 people jammed the streets of Manhattan on September 21, drawn from all parts by the magnetic force of the People’s Climate March. I have been in gatherings like this one before: the People’s Climate Summit in Bolivia in 2010; the activist assembly at Rio 20 in 2012; and others. And in this way the debates around the People’s Climate March seemed, for the most part, no different. As she spoke about the People’s Climate March, I began to recognize a strategy that was old and familiar: containment. This is what the People’s Climate March was really about.