,” which looks at the science of the issue. Like Abrams, the show steers clear of politics to focus on strategies around the world to address climate change. “This can be very overwhelming. It can be depressing,” she says. “It’s like, ‘Let’s shift the gear and see all the wonderful things that people are doing for the environment.’ ”So at a party, she looks for common ground. “This is what I say: ‘Forget everything else. Can we just not be wasteful?’ We don’t need to leave the lights on.
Abrams calls this the weather equivalent of hiding the vegetables in the casserole. “We can all educate ourselves, and it doesn’t have to be doom and gloom, and it doesn’t have to be political. It’s kind of a nice way to gently put it out there.” But some do not go gently into that good night. As the political becomes increasingly personal, the line where polite conversation stops and activism starts has blurred. So if you invite Margaret Klein Salamon to your party, you’re going to hear about climate change, whether you want to or not., which funds what it calls “disruptive” climate protests. “We are not acting like this is an emergency. It’s time to break with social convention.
Salamon, 36, says she made small talk about weather — just like everyone else — until she had a “climate freakout” nine years ago. Her therapist pointed out that she worried a lot but didn’t know much about the subject. So she dedicated her life to educating herself and others about the coming apocalypse. She gets that it’s not a pleasant topic. She’s undeterred. She’s Cassandra: Can’t stop, won’t stop.
“Any conversation can be viewed as an opportunity for a political intervention,” Salamon says. Small talk facilitates denial, and that’s not happening on her watch. “I’m not saying you have to give a lecture. The rule of thumb is to acknowledge reality. We all have a moral duty to do what we can.”For Salamon, who trained as a clinical psychologist, that means explaining to baby boomers how climate change will hurt their children and grandchildren.
OMG the sky is going to kill us!
Lol
Weathers been nice
Yes yes yes, to the paranoid and insane, EVERY THING is problematic somehow.
Lol liking for a fight
The climate waits for no man!
for woke liberals
We are witnessing the end of the world in real time.
What the hell is that picture
We will all be dead by halloween!!!!
This is why you don’t want to move to DC. Poisons everything.
lol... Good one.
But you told me weather wasn't climate!!! How dare you!
Rains to much climate change Don’t rain enough climate change To hot to cold climate change To windy to many storms climate change Guess what the climate been changing for 40 million years …get over it!!!
The elitists who own the Washington Post are the ones responsible for the 'seriousness' of the climate, not regular people.
Y’all ruined everything
Please tell me it's racist, sexist, and homophobic. I'd hate to think my small talk was a wasted opportunity to harm the oppressed.
Um, no. Growing up in rural Montana we didn’t talk about weather for small talk. Forest fires. Crop shortage. Bugs murdering trees. Don’t get me started on bears. This was decades ago. Finally folks are almost getting around to the oh gosh notion of climate change.
Yeah the weather didn't exist before industrialization.
You suck
Wow, so not only did we not get sports during covid, now we can't even discuss the weather? No thanks, I choose sanity.