Climate Ask Umbra
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Should I donate my clothes or wear them to shreds?
When it comes to everyday, identity-expressing things like food and clothing, advice that doesn’t factor in culture is worthless.
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How can I teach my students about climate change?
The youngest Gen Zers are just starting to wrap their heads around multiplication tables, let alone planetary physics.
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Why does environmentalism have a dark side?
So-called eco-fascists aren’t trying to challenge the power structures that created climate change in any meaningful way.
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What’s so wrong with bottled water, anyway?
A single-use bottle of water is often held up as the paragon example of a product that solves a nonexistent problem.
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Will I be able to tell when we’ve reached a climate tipping point?
This question is inherently, existentially, and unavoidably upsetting. But it still needs an answer.
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I want to be a parent, but how can I when things seem so awful?
This is a question I can't answer alone.
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How can I get a job that fights climate change?
Everything might seem terrible, but there's never been a better market for a climate-related job!
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I was attacked by a driver. Do cars make us angrier?
Nothing in life is free, including the right to an open road.
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How do I get my husband to care about the climate?
About climate change, or the environment, or any of those life-or-death abstract things.
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Can I have my climate-friendly seafood and eat it, too?
It's complicated, but we figured out some ground rules.