This chapter offers a personal, first-person testimony from a climate scientist and activist on the experience of facing the scientific reality of climate breakdown directly, and what it demands of those who do so, both emotionally and in terms of how they choose to live and act.
Facing Difficult Climate Truths
This chapter offers a personal, first-person testimony from a climate scientist and activist on the experience of facing the scientific reality of climate breakdown directly, and what it demands of those who do so, both emotionally and in terms of how they choose to live and act.

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