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. Hi, this is Dacker Keltner. Very often the greatest challenges and trials in our lives,

combat natural disaster, economic trauma, mortality, return us to our nobler tendencies and our greater sense of purpose in life.

Yes, we have to watch out during this time of coronavirus for the racism, xenophobia, and aggression that it can arise during times like these,

and we have to respond with force with our capacities for compassion, connection, and creativity.

As we record this, we're in a studio on a vacated campus, UC Berkeley, where I teach.

Many of us feel the fear of the spread of COVID-19.

We're keeping our distance from others who bring such strength and love to our lives.

This social distancing obviously is crucial at saving lives

but it's also disrupting the very fabric of how we get along with others. Businesses are suffering,

families are separated. Students I've spoken with feel the racist

underpinnings of how the virus is named by many, or what social distancing

means to them if they come from diverse backgrounds, and the economic

consequences and disease,

which often hit the poorest hardest, may very likely

follow with law-like regularity.

We know, though, that the ideas and practices

that we share at the Greater Good Science Center are often activated during

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