On a planet beset by climate change, what’s the best way to handle a heated conversation?
,” which looks at the science of the issue. Like Abrams, the show steers clear of politics to focus on strategies around the world to address climate change. “This can be very overwhelming. It can be depressing,” she says. “It’s like, ‘Let’s shift the gear and see all the wonderful things that people are doing for the environment.’ ”So at a party, she looks for common ground. “This is what I say: ‘Forget everything else. Can we just not be wasteful?’ We don’t need to leave the lights on.
Abrams calls this the weather equivalent of hiding the vegetables in the casserole. “We can all educate ourselves, and it doesn’t have to be doom and gloom, and it doesn’t have to be political. It’s kind of a nice way to gently put it out there.” But some do not go gently into that good night. As the political becomes increasingly personal, the line where polite conversation stops and activism starts has blurred. So if you invite Margaret Klein Salamon to your party, you’re going to hear about climate change, whether you want to or not., which funds what it calls “disruptive” climate protests. “We are not acting like this is an emergency. It’s time to break with social convention.
Salamon, 36, says she made small talk about weather — just like everyone else — until she had a “climate freakout” nine years ago. Her therapist pointed out that she worried a lot but didn’t know much about the subject. So she dedicated her life to educating herself and others about the coming apocalypse. She gets that it’s not a pleasant topic. She’s undeterred. She’s Cassandra: Can’t stop, won’t stop.
“Any conversation can be viewed as an opportunity for a political intervention,” Salamon says. Small talk facilitates denial, and that’s not happening on her watch. “I’m not saying you have to give a lecture. The rule of thumb is to acknowledge reality. We all have a moral duty to do what we can.”For Salamon, who trained as a clinical psychologist, that means explaining to baby boomers how climate change will hurt their children and grandchildren.
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