"If climate change threatens us all, shouldn't everyone be talking

[Duppers]

If climate change threatens us all, shouldn't everyone be talking about it? "That's the only way revolutions ever start"

According to the new book, "Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World," the lack of conversation may be the biggest threat of all.

Author Katharine Hayhoe said more than half of U.S. adults are concerned about climate change, but only about a third of us ever talk about it. Hayhoe is a prominent climate scientist at Texas Tech University who studies not only the climate but the conversation around it.

"I mean, if one more person tells you about a starving polar bear, or a melting iceberg, or rising sea levels, you're just like, 'What am I supposed to do? I'm just one person. I'm not, like, the president, or CEO, or anything," said Hayhoe.

Hayhoe argues the most important thing people can do is the one thing so many have been avoiding—talking about it.
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"Did you know that 90 companies are responsible for two-thirds of the whole global warming problem since the beginning of the industrial era?" asked Hayhoe, who joined in the conversation.

... 9,000,000 people die every year of air pollution.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/climate-change-conversations/

[Mountain Mule]

1. I talk so much about climate change that people run when they see me coming!

I have finally brought my roommate around, but he's sort of a captive audience.

I do agree with your post, however. Even if I just say something like, "Gee, the summers are sure hotter than they used to be," I figure I'm bringing climate change to the other person's attention, even if only briefly.

[Anon-C]

2. We can stare a problem in the Face...

[Duppers]

3. Thanks, Mountain Mule.

I've done the same - I've annoyed people but I know I've made them think. One friend once told me, "well, scientists will come up with 'something." She took the Barbara Bush route of "I'm not going to bother my beautiful mind with this."

I guess folks feel helpless, as if they cannot do anything but we know we can.

[Mountain Mule]

4. In dealing with climate change just as in dealing with life

We are only beaten when you we despair and give up. Will I ever see my beloved Colorado forests and mountains as they once were? Not in my lifetime and not in many, many, many lifetimes of the Coloradans who will follow me. But if we act, beginning now, we can prevent some of the really bad scenarios from playing out. Quite simply, despair means digging yourself a shallow grave and laying down in it for eternity - which I'm told is a very long time. Last night a truly beautiful moth got caught in my curtains. I gently captured him and let him out. Go, moth! Perhaps you yourself also captured that same species of moth and set it free. In a day or two they will navigate by the stars to meet one another and another species will be saved, however briefly - or maybe for a long, long time.

[Duppers]

5. TY! If we acknowledge & care.

There's poetry in your "soul," MM.

Wishing the moths, butterflies, birds, trees, our planet more life. Folks must recognize the power we humans have to save or destroy our environment.

Thank you! 🙏