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Today, I want to take a current headline out of the news and sit with it like a philosopher, not like a pundit.

The story is the opening of the COP 30 in Baleem, Brazil. If you've been following climate news

even casually, you know the COP is the annual UN climate conference, and this year it's gathering

literally in the Amazon, one of the lungs of the planet. The headlines frame it as an

implementation summit. That means fewer grand promises and more show your work kind of conversations.

Nations are supposed to submit updated national climate plans that extend out to 2035, and the

pressure is on to turn prior already existing pledges into concrete steps, concrete steps on

emissions cuts, on financing poorer nations, and on preparing

for the climate harms that are already here. That's the news. And in this episode, I'm hoping to

provide a clear-eyed take, in a practical stoic way, on what an event like this means for people

who want to live excellently right now,

for us stoics. How do we respond to the scale of a problem like climate change or climate

breakdown, if you prefer, that is clearly bigger than any one of us, but is absolutely not

bigger than all of us. What belongs to us in concerns to such an issue, and what does not?

What duties does cosmopolitanism within the Stoic framing place on our shoulders as Stoics?

And how do we hold grief and resolve together without becoming either numb or hysterical?

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