What's one of those life skills you wish you had, but never learn? Mine is the phonetic alphabet (i.e., "C as in Charlie"). I always panic and give the most unhinged, top-of-my-brain examples, like "M as in mammoths" or "P as in poop." I hope I at least entertain service workers.

In an essay out today in the AGU journal Eos, @jeffcorbin, Meghan Duffy, @carlyziter and I discuss the urgent need to move beyond the "it's real, it's bad, it's us" approach to climate education. What is desperately needed instead are pathways towards climate action that engage and empower students, while helping to fight the immobility of climate despair.

https://eos.org/opinions/climate-education-that-builds-hope-and-agency-not-fear