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I'm a writer and a climate activist and this is my 2021 essay, Ten Ways to

Confront the Climate Crisis Without Losing Hope. In 2021 the climate activist students at Columbia University asked me to give a climate talk and I asked them what they needed and this is pretty much the answer to what they asked for and I thought

of it as the climate toolbox equipment for facing the climate crisis and doing something about it.

Three years since I wrote this, the physical state of the world has gotten more disturbing.

The climate movement has continued to

accomplish a lot. The solutions to burning fossil fuel, the transition to

renewables and their success continues to shine. And so it really just feels like an era in which we need to persevere and push and build

a bigger climate movement that will be more powerful than the fossil fuel industry and speed the

transition that is inevitable but needs to be fast.

And I wrote this with the sense that where I come from we get told to have our earthquake

kit. There's a lot of things you get told about your emergency kit, your evacuation

kit facing climate disasters.

But the most important toolkit we always have is our ideas, our understandingsings or information.

And so I think of some of the climate information,

climate perspectives, climate frameworks I try and offer

as a toolkit, not that you passively receive receive but that you can put to work in your own role as a potential or actual climate activist as someone responding to the situation with agency, with energy, maybe even with hope.

You look at the past in so many ways, whether it's the status of women, the utter lack of knowledge, let alone respect for the natural

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