Talking about Climate Change in an Emotionally Intelligent Way

Dealing with skeptics and your emotions.

The Chubby Honu
Greener Together

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The nature of the topic of climate change already sounds doom and gloom, while bringing the topic up at the dinner table makes you the defacto wet blanket.

Illustration: Gillian Levine

Why are you being so emotional? Stop being affected by the things you can’t control.

If you are like me, I am often times called a radical and being too emotional or sensitive over the things I supposedly can’t control in this world. Gaslighted and dismissed as a tree-loving, capitalist-hating hippy by my own parents. People blame it on the generation gap, but I am so confused because aren’t we not living on the same, damaged earth?

Let us uncover the perception of whether humans really just don’t give a shit about the earth.

Why is climate change considered controversial?

In spite of the overwhelming evidence about the destruction caused by climate change, it still remains the toughest, most intractable political issue we, as a society…

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The Chubby Honu
Greener Together

Sustainability communicator. Systems thinker in pursuit of interconnectedness in our complex ecosystems.