Hey everyone, I'm Amy Scott, host of how we survive.

And this is burning questions, our series where we answer what you want to know

about the climate crisis. Feeling overwhelmed about climate change, I get it. It can be pretty easy to fall into a rabbit hole of bad news.

Greenhouse gas emissions keep growing even as more of us experience the reality of rising seas devastating storms and record heat waves.

It can be tempting to just bury your head in the sand, but we all know that won't solve

anything.

So how do we keep going in the face of this existential crisis

and do what we can without letting perfection

get in the way of progress?

Dr. Iana Elizabeth Johnson has been thinking about all of this.

She's a policy expert, marine biologist, and writer.

Her latest book is called What If We Get It Right?

It's full of essays and conversations that envision all the ways we can still shape our climate future for the better.

So if you're in need of a little climate inspiration, this one's for you.

The book is at its heart a set of 20 interviews with people who have helped to me to see the answers to that big question, what if we get it right?

So I'm really trying to lean into helping people see that it's worth the effort.

Because I think so much of our media, film, news is about the apocalypse, right?

And that's not super motivating for a lot of people

because it doesn't give us what we're working towards.

It just gives us something we should be running away from.

And to be honest, we're not really running.

We're sort of sauntering away from the brink.

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