Hey life kit listeners, if you're like me, you have a lot of questions about what it means to live during climate change.

It can be a lot. So in an effort to make sense of all of it, our friends at It's Been a Minute sat down with a scientist and a climate change reporter to sift through all of it.

Here's the episode.

Hey, y'all, this is Sam's Aunt Betty. This week, answering your questions about climate change.

All right, let's start the show.

Hey y'all, you're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR. I'm Sam Sanders.

Beginning this weekend, the UN will hold a conference on climate change in Glasgow.

And as you've heard by now, more than ever, scientists have said it is very critical for us to start making some really big changes to avoid the most catastrophic effects of global warming.

Happy Halloween everybody. The scares are coming from inside the house. Climate change is here.

You know, climate change is such a big problem for everyone that I sometimes find it very difficult to even talk about, both in my personal life and frankly on this show.

But all that aside, I am still kind of hopeful because I think that hope is something we should have, something we have to have for this kind of thing, right?

I mean, that's what the posters tell me. That is the thing that keeps people going and sad movies and TV shows.

Hope. Are y'all hopeful? Do you ever feel the defeatist streak of it? No.

Okay, tell me, tell me. I don't like that word.

Okay. We're in anti-hope assassin. Okay.

This is Kendra Pierre Lewis in Iana, Elizabeth Johnson.

My name is Kendra Pierre Lewis. I'm a senior climate reporter with the Gimlet Spotify podcast, How to Save a Planet.

I'm Iana Elizabeth Johnson. I'm a marine biologist and a writer, a formerly co-host of How to Save a Planet co-creator of that show and co-founder of a think tank called Urban Ocean Lab.

I'm gonna own the fact that I grew up extremely Catholic. And so for me, the thing that I feel like gets lost in all of this is like morality, right?

Like, and I think that's why I don't like hope because hope has this expectation that's tied to an outcome.

So if you don't think that you are going to achieve this outcome, then what's the use in a trying rate?

Whereas I'm very much shaped in the idea that there's a right thing to do and a wrong thing to do. And so like, why would I do the wrong thing just because doing the right thing may not get the outcome that I'm looking for?

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