Birth: 1957
Climate change has been associated so much with a peaceful mentality - obviously peace and love are good, but we need to think about climate as a thr….
Taking fear seriously is not easy. A lot of people's response to fear is "Don't worry so much, it's crazy." But some things absolutely deserve our fe….
Social movements throughout history take place in people's minds. If we got 5,000 Americans who were talking about climate change to their neighbors ….
Psychologically speaking, the rational, healthy response to climate change is to say to oneself, "What can I do about this?" But that question is oft….
It is rarely comfortable to talk about climate change. Bringing something difficult up, it feels like somehow by mentioning this I'm kind of causing ….
The problem is so severe that trying to say, "First we'll fix the government and then we'll tackle climate change," or, "First we have to figure out ….
I used to be a lot more afraid of climate change. Now I spend my time working, planning, trying to move forward..
By looking the other way on climate change we facilitate a collective denial, and we do it for each other..
With climate change, of course there are things to grieve. I certainly grieved that the vision that I had for my life, that I would be a clinical psy….
I think 99% of climate scientists would agree that we need to reduce emissions as quickly as possible, and then begin removing greenhouse gasses and ….
While the American people have the impression that scientists are hard at work figuring out this complex matter of climate change, it's not actually ….
I think it's very important to invite and encourage people to talk about climate change who have a lay understanding. In general, there is a lot of c….
My grandmother is a Holocaust survivor. Some heroes of mine have long been the Jewish Partisans, these young people who just went into the woods with….
What we accomplished during World War Two is just amazing. We turned our country upside down. African Americans were demanding to be given combat mis….
Climate change is the sine qua non of continued civilization. We either solve this, or it's lights out. Turning into a collective like that is so muc….
There are a lot of reasons people don't talk about climate change. One of them has to do with the language of science, and people feeling not compete….
I argue that I don't think it's a moral position to say that civilization is going to collapse, and that's okay. Because that would cause the deaths ….
Online petitions are built around getting as many signatures as possible. But the experience of taking them and forgetting about them degrades the im….