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Coming to Grips with Climate Change
![Bill Nye on Big Storms: How Much Is Climate Change to Blame?](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/c76452ea-1662-4f83-ba58-ad15ca0c770b/52186355481_9144fb517b_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=600&q=80&rect=1434%2C0%2C3661%2C5504&w=400)
In the 23 years since the final episode of “Bill Nye the Science Guy” aired, natural disasters such as hurricanes, heat waves, and floods have significantly increased in frequ...
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How do you impact climate change? How does climate change — and the fraught conversation about it — impact you? Are feelings of climate doom even justified? What are the best...
![Americans and Climate: Words to Use, Words to Lose](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/bf0b2a49-bbc5-4046-8f98-2e8506283281/aif-2022-words.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C0%2C1600%2C901&w=400)
Most people now agree that climate change is real and that humans are causing it. But that’s where the consensus stops. Political pollster and strategist Frank Luntz, known fo...
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Alaina Wood, aka "The Garbage Queen" on TikTok, shares the importance of imperfect sustainability and her advice for dealing with climate doom.
![Our Way of Life Depends on Building a New, Just Energy System](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/9e13cf0f-69f3-40c3-9643-8c6dcfc3f3e4/Solarpanels.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=400&q=80&rect=1469%2C0%2C2819%2C2820&w=400)
Jason Bordoff, Director of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, reflects on the tension between energy affordability and climate ambition and what is nec...
![Anyone Can Become a Climate Advocate. Here’s How.](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/4ebe1c6d-4bc3-4515-bb17-f3baa424e371/pexels-markus-spiske-2990650.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=400&q=80&rect=1098%2C0%2C3840%2C3840&w=400)
Dr. Eliza Nemser, geoscientist and executive director of Climate Changemakers, on how to recognize your own agency in the climate crisis.
![ICYMI: Books We’re Reading on Climate](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/bf797f7a-8e33-47b1-ae69-237cd87e9304/iStock-889902600.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=400&q=80&rect=664%2C0%2C1416%2C1415&w=400)
Our favorite books about climate: up-close looks at communities impacted by warming, riveting stories that center the natural world, and bold, comprehensive solutions.
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Longtime food journalist Mark Bittman says America's food system needs to be reimagined so land is used fairly and well and people have access to food that promotes health, no...
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There's no denying the world is already paying for climate change. The price is stronger hurricanes, bigger wildfires, and unpredictable heat waves. So, how can people living...