Climate Conversations

 "Every year, more people die from air pollution caused by burning fossil fuels than have died from COVID-19 since the pandemic began. Every week, there’s another climate-fueled flood, storm, or wildfire putting more people in harms’ way. Given these urgent, alarming realities, we often wonder: why aren’t people acting at the speed and scale required to address this crisis?

Understanding how climate change is affecting our families, our communities, and the world we cherish is what fuels our desire to act. And how do we help others make that connection? Through a step that’s so obvious, we often look right past it: by talking about it!

That’s why I challenge you, this week, to start a conversation that helps someone make that head-to-heart connection. Show them that, to care about climate change, they don’t have to be a scientist or an activist; they only need to be a human being who calls this planet home. And then, help them connect their heart to their hands. Show them how, through working together and supporting each other as we do at Project Dandelion, we help to can create the momentum we need and like dandelion seeds carried by the wind, each of us can sow the seeds of change wherever we go."

Katharine Hayhoe

  Climate Scientist | Distinguished Professor, Texas Tech | Chief Scientist, The Nature Conservancy | Author, SAVING US

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