Listening to a podcast helps you engage in the climate conversation

User: emcintyre1@comcast.net

Vendor: Drive Green - Green Energy Consumers Alliance

Action: 3381 - Engage in the Climate Conversation

The topic of "Climate Change" can seem incomprehensible, inscrutable, bewildering and intimidating. It is so big and so varied that it can be tough to know where to start learning.  I sometimes feel that way when it is time to do the dishes after I have cooked a big meal: “where should I start cleaning the mess??”  But the solution is simple. I just pick up the first thing I see, and put it away, then the next thing to do is obvious.

It is the same principle in trying to engage with the climate movement. It matters less exactly where you start to engage, and matters more that you actually DO engage! One baby step is to listen to a podcast- it is easy and occasionally informative.  Right now on Beacon Hill in Boston, there are new laws under consideration about how Massachusetts will act on climate. One proposal wants to 'make polluters pay.' What is up with that? Who is polluting? How much should they pay? Well, there is a 30 minute podcast available to answer that question,  with an expert to explain the ideas in simple, straightforward and understandable ways. You can listen here.

The podcast episode is from a show The Climate Minute, which has been around for ten years. The show is dedicated to explaining the impacts and implications of global warming in easy to understand terms. Do you know what ISO is? Neither did anyone else until they listened to  this show  about "Demystifying FERC ISO NESCOE and NEPOOL.” Want to know how Franklin can become a Climate Leader Community? Listen to Cobi Frongillo explain.

You can listen to any or  all the Climate Minute podcast episodes on Apple , Google: https://podcasts.google.com/search/the%20climate%20minute Podbean https://massclimateaction.podbean.com/ Or Spotify

If you are a fan of Franklin Matters, you can see the page that collects all the “Making Sense of Climate” episodes -> https://www.franklinmatters.org/2022/02/making-sense-of-climate-collection.html

 But there are lots of other climate podcasts. A good one is Dave Robert's show Volts on Google. For a lighthearted take, go listen to Sustainababble (Spotify link)

So if you are not sure how to begin grappling with global warming, put 'climate change podcast' in your favorite search engine. You might enjoy what you hear.