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Sink into this as a way into the conversation that follows. In the world in which I was born and maybe you too,

the weather was the stuff of small talk. The seasons of the year were the underlay of planting and harvesting food that nourishes and fuels our bodies, of course,

but seasons have also been the very mundane predictable

rhythm of our days and our lives. Now the loss of seasons as we knew them, the loss of storms as we knew to navigate them,

is an experience we are all sharing in all the places we inhabit and love. This is closer to home than every fight we have

about climate and the science around it, the meaning of it. We feel this in our bodies, the young among us most keenly. It leads some of us to those

fights and some of us to retreat within, overwhelmed.

My guest today is the exuberant and mighty Costa Rican diplomat Christina Figueres.

She as much as anyone alive on the planet right now has felt that overwhelm and stepped into service.

She is a most eloquent articulator, both of the

both of the grief that we feel and must allow to bind us to each other, and what she sees as a spiritual evolution the natural world is calling us to.

If you have wondered how to keep hope alive amidst a thousand

reasons to despair, if you are ready to take your despair as fuel, intrigued by

the idea of stepping into love as a way to stepping into service, and

open to immediate realities of abundance and regeneration.

This conversation is for you. I'm Krista Tippett, and this is on being.

Christina Figueres was Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate

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