Climate change is going to require collective action.

But how can individual actions make a difference?

On a new episode of Life Kit, we're walking you through

what sort of climate

week,

week, where ever you get your podcasts.

You know, this is a life kit, part of NPR's Climate Week, wherever you get your podcasts. You know this guy came up to me one time and he says I want to talk to you about

generosity and kindness and we were at a cafe we were having lunch and he says you know I know

about giving but I don't know about receiving and what are your tips for

receiving this guy is very affluent, sort of philanthropist. So we started talking and at the end of the meal was time to pay the check.

And he's like, no, no, you can't pay. And I said, no, no, you can't pay. Let me do it.

So what we decided to do, I said, I'll pay for this table, but you pay for a random table.

And so he calls the waitress over and he starts to have a conversation and he says you know I'd like to pay for another table and the first thing is the waitress looks and it's like why?

You know what's it going on here and then he says look I just want to make somebody's day and so this

woman then says okay fine I get this is like okay who so somehow he picked the table and

this woman now has to go and you know our waitress

her name was Mandy and goes to the table and Mandy comes back with this incredible

joy we're like what what happened? How was it? And she's like, it was

amazing. They looked at me and they're like, wow, do you guys do this here all the time?

Yeah, because we're not from here. And she was no longer just our waitress, she was our

compatriot in goodness, you know. And at the end of that incredible interaction, I looked

at my friend and I said, you know, were you giving?

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