When it comes to climate, we often think most people are not worried about it .. so we need to MAKE them worried, right?

In reality, though, the majority of people -- yes, even in the US -- are already worried about it. Where I live in Texas, even 40% of Republicans are worried.

So why aren't we seeing more action? Because if you're worried, but you don't know what to do, then you don't do anything.

So how do we move people from worried to activated? This was my topic at the University of Vienna the other week; huge thanks to Lukas Brunner for the summary.

https://imgw.univie.ac.at/news-events/more-items/keynote-by-katharine-hayhoe-from-worried-to-activated/

It shouldn’t need saying that any path that runs through murdered kids (anyone’s kids) and grandmas (anyone’s grandmas) isn’t leading to a better world.

Or that the hatred of Jewish people for their Jewishness is so real and terrifying and dangerous.

Or that Palestinians deserve the same freedom to make a good life as everyone else.

Or that every atrocity is wrong and worth trying to prevent.

I feel so choked with grief but when these ideas are controversial it feels necessary to speak.

Back in 1985, Carl Sagan told Congress that continuing to burn fossil fuels will increase global temperature, cause climate change, melt glaciers and ice sheets, and cause sea level rise.

His solution: Fewer government subsidies for fossil fuels and use of renewable energy.