The name Erin Brockovich is now so symbolic in the U.S. that it is also used as a verb: to Erin Brockovich something means to investigate it to the bitter end; in other words, refusing to give up. “I think that to change something in the upper echelons of power and reduce their influence on the planet, we have to look at what is closest to us, otherwise we will have a problem. We must first look in our own backyard,” she says.