We need to show people that facing our climate future is not the end of the line. People are afraid of being paralyzed by despair. But that’s not what happens. Or, at least, that’s not what happens for long. Also, it’s critical to provide people opportunities

The principal reason people disagree about climate change science is not that it has been communicated to them in forms they cannot understand. Rather, it is that positions on climate change convey values—communal concern versus individual self-reliance; prudent self-abnegation versus the heroic pursuit of reward; humility versus ingenuity; harmony

Is there any way to keep faith with the unpleasant facts and still offer people a viable strategy forward? And if there isn’t, should we still tell people how bad we think it is? Yes, Guy McPherson and Tim DeChristopher have concluded.