who, like parents everywhere, has the task of explaining topics as big as global warming and the climate crisis to her two young sons.Zee told Mitchell and Kohlberg that she starts by letting her sons know that neither she nor anyone has all the answers about the Earth and its changing climate.
Then, Zee said she explains what scientists know about climate change using the blanket analogy because kids and adults alike can understand that the thicker a blanket on your lap, the warmer you get. She continued, "We always had different layers, and we always had different things, but all we did was put one more on, like we do all the time in the winter, on our bed. We didn't need to do that, and we are warming faster than we naturally would have. Because we have always warmed and cooled. That's what the Earth does over cycles and cycles and eons and eons. But we have added a blanket in the last 150 years, and we haven't stopped making that blanket thicker.
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