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Climate Change is Incredibly Difficult to Talk About, and That’s Why We Need the Conversations.
The hardest things to talk about are always the most important.
There are a whole lot of ugly realities out there.
The long list of issues facing not just ordinary Americans but the world at large seems to be ever growing, and it’s difficult to sit down and think about things like money in politics or crony capitalism without getting deeply discouraged. Of course, the most frustrating aspect of all of this is the knowledge that the issues most deserving of our attention and dialogue are the ones that are often the most depressing to consider. For me personally, nowhere is that proven more true than when it comes to climate change.
Even without really delving in to it, one of the few issues that simply makes me feel hopeless, empty, and defeated is climate change. It’s difficult to acknowledge the scope of the problem without being instantly overcome with a profound sense of loss, and the thought that we are past the point of no return inevitably seeps in to the back of my mind. After learning that Trump’s Secretary of the Interior just recently rolled back the regulations on the oil industry put in place after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill, that all too familiar devastating feeling came…
