Hello and welcome to Outrageant Optimism. I'm Tom Ravikana. I am Cristiano Pugetis. And I'm Paul

the Concert. Today on this the last episode of 2023, we aren't sick. We aren't sick. There's

2020. It's the end of 2020. It's the end of 2020. It's the beginning of 2024 to come. Don't

feel too sad. Okay. Okay. You like 2020. Was it a special year? No, I'm just sad. I'm

not going to talk to you every week. Don't worry. It's coming back. So today we answer your

questions about how do you deal with challenges on the climate crisis at Family

Gatherings. Thanks for being here.

So Cristiano ended the year, although of course we will roll straight into the next one. It's

going to be another big year. They all are. And a few months ago, we asked you the wonderful

listeners to Outrageant Optimism to send us some questions. And we put a particular framing

around them. Of course, hopefully not everybody, but many people who listen to this podcast may be

spending a lot of time over the course of the next few weeks with extended family members,

aunts, uncles, grandparents, these sorts of people. If you choose to over the holiday season.

And we know that sometimes conversations about climate change come up because listeners to

Outrageant Optimism, of course, care a lot about the climate or maybe working in the climate

space. And this can lead to some difficult situations. Can't it Paul? Oh, most especially

all those difficult questions. I sometimes get myself in my own beloved family less so. But

yeah, you have what how do you respond? How do you I'm curious before we begin? Cristiano,

do you ever get different? Does any member of your family dare to come up to you and say,

well, the climate, you know, we were worried about the Russians a few years ago, climate is not

really warming. Doesn't really work anymore. Not with those eyebrows. I mean, no, I'm actually

quite blessed that members of my family don't don't think that way. But I have many, many

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