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Andy @Revkin's avatar

Bravo, Hannah. Keep it up despite the challenges. One issue I have with that survey is the wording of the survey! Like leading the witness to ask “Does climate change make you think that: […]?” and have only negative options for respondents. What would results have been if there were options like, "Does climate change make you think that we can find ways to cut vulnerability for the poor?"

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RS's avatar

[cw suicide] I once tried to look up statistics on how many suicides were influenced by despair over climate change. I still would like to know this number. But oddly all the search results I got were only about how statistically, suicides rise when the temperature is higher. Which doesn't bode well, either, but isn't what I was looking for.

Here's what I think you're right about: Despair actively stops us from doing everything we can. For that reason only we should be careful about tone; not for sugarcoating reasons.

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