This personal essay recounts the author's childhood experiences with her father's passionate, sometimes overwhelming, focus on climate change. From Thanksgiving lectures to Christmas Eve emails about Santa's impracticalities, the author's father, nicknamed 'Dr. Doom,' never missed an opportunity to inject environmental concerns into family gatherings.
ArticleBody:This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. I was 11 years old the year my older stepsister brought her high school boyfriend home for the first time. It was Thanksgiving in 2006, and his Southern manners fit right in as we bantered between mouthfuls of cornbread stuffing, fried okra, and marshmallow-topped sweet potato casserole.
Some studies show that those experiencing distress are also more active, while others say that emphasizing worst-case scenarios, like so-called climate “tipping points,” is an ineffective strategy that can overwhelm and demotivate audiences instead. It can also backfire on a personal level: Listeners of the podcast “This American Life” may be familiar with a story about a climate activist dad whose zeal led to his children cutting him out of their lives.
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