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The thing that really, really frightens me about climate change and that I think is much more of an imminent threat than everybody going extinct

is what it's going to do to our societies and what it's going to do to the way that we treat each other.

Hello, welcome to Mr. Clanchon, the Vox Media Podcast Network, and to the first episode of our climate cluster.

This is something that I've mentioned I've been working on for some time and I am thrilled to begin rolling it out.

I want to be upfront about where this series is coming from.

Like a lot of people, I accept the science as real on climate change and I also accept that that is like a dumb place for that debate to start.

We need to do better than accepting the science as real and the longer we're caught in this argument, just over yes or no, do you believe or do you disbelieve, the harder it's going to be to ever, ever move forward.

But in part, because I accept the science as real and also because the problem feels overwhelming and complicated, I sometimes operate in the climate change conversation with an outsourcing is maybe the best way to put it.

I believe climate change is bad.

I don't always know how to rate the question of is it bad in the way that people don't have health insurance and poverty is bad or is it bad in the way that the human race will not survive and the earth will become uninhabitable.

And we are dealing with an existential threat, bad and those are different. I think they're profoundly different for how you imagine treating them in politics politics operates in different ways when you're dealing with an existential threat like an invading army.

Then it does when you're dealing with just the day to day horrors of being human and living in society, maybe it shouldn't, but it does.

And so one thing that I've wanted to do for my own work is to actually take the time to try to build a better ground up understanding of climate change.

So I'm not just saying like yes, it's bad. And then I sort of have this dark hole in my understanding of what I mean when I say that and how to rate what other people are talking about when they say that.

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