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This is Lindsay Smith Rogers.

Today, Stephanie Desmond talks to Heather Price, a climate scientist and one of the

creators of Talk Climate, an online resource designed to help people of all ages have productive,

courageous, and empowering conversations about climate change. They discuss why age-appropriate content

is so valuable at this key moment in the climate crisis. Let's listen.

Heather Price, thanks so much for joining me. Thank you for having me, Stephanie.

I want to talk to you today about an initiative that you've started called Talk Climate.

But first, I want you to tell me and your listeners a little bit about your background and how you

ended up here. Yes, I'm a climate scientist by training, an atmospheric chemist. I did my postdoc

with a program on climate change at University of Washington, working on global chemical transport

models, looking at what would happen if we went to a hydrogen economy. And my PhD, I studied

air pollution,

of which much of our air pollution is fossil-fueled. It is connected to climate. So I've been working

into the climate sphere since the late 90s. And now I teach chemistry. I'm a chemistry professor,

and I weave climate all through my teaching. And in the work that I do with students and also on the

board of climate action families, we discovered that the way that we talk with kids really

depends on how old they are, how ready they are, what questions they have their curiosity.

And so I started working with mental health professionals such as Megan Slade, Daniel Masler,

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