Steady your voice, state you believe all will be okay, then go back to work.
Scientists like me study carbon emissions, deforestation, ocean acidification, desertification, sea-level rise, glacial melting, landscape degradation, groundwater salination, invasive species, global warming and more. There is very little good news to share. Today’s environmental problems are easily big enough to eclipse our inadequate solutions. When people tell me that climate change makes them feel hopeless, I breathe deep, and then I respond. I don’t answer them because I have a good response, but because we all deserve at least a bad response. Here is what I say.
What I Say When People Tell Me That They Feel Hopeless About Climate Change
First of all, I remind them that we are strong and lucky. That our planet is also home to one billion people who live wretchedly on less than one thousand calories a day. The fact that we are of the group with food, shelter and clean water obligates us…
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