This is Robbie. We're taking a break from our normal routine to bring you a special episode.

Climate change is something so big that it's easy to ignore. We're used to hearing scary

statistics but our brains tend to shut those stats out. Our producer Grace Lynch is the

host of a new show that makes climate change personal. I think this is really important

because after all this is about the planet that we leave to future generations, really

the kind of planet that we want to live in for the rest of our lives. So don't turn this

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The story survived upstream of me. This, the river bloated, turned outward on itself.

A break through wide, a more natural state. Forget the walls, the artificial banks setting

a thin route south into the Gulf. River found its mouth lacking, made itself big to accommodate

the search. Water by volume. Water by the tonne for miles fills its container. Won't be

kept out. I grew up at the base of the Salish Sea in Olympia, Washington. Instead of running

around lawns or bicycling on sidewalks, I spent my childhood roaming the tidal flats.

Recently when I was home, I was standing out in the water with my dad, looking down at

the sand dollars at my feet. And he said, you know Grace, I haven't seen a starfish here

in years. It almost sounded like a line from a cheesy horror film. A la, she's been dead

for a thousand years or something like that. But unfortunately, climate change and its

far reaching tentacles are far from fiction. Even in my relatively short lifetime, I've

seen climate change transform my home. From the changing ecosystem on the tidal flats

to severe weather patterns. We all heard about the crushing heat wave that's wept across

the Pacific Northwest this summer. It's estimated that nearly a billion small sea creatures

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