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Do you find it hard to talk about climate change? You’re not alone. Surveys indicate that 72 percent of Americans believe in climate change, but only 35 percent are talking about it regularly. Climate change is a challenging topic of conversation. Reports of devastating wildfires, hurricanes and other events have increased in frequency, and discussing them can feel scary and difficult. At the same time, many of the ways most people personally experience climate change won’t make the news, and the effects are felt differently depending on where you live.
Your experience with climate change is likely different than that of your relatives living in another state, and probably even different than your cross-town friends. Seemingly mundane factors underlie these differences — how much shade you have on your block, whether you live upstream from contained animal farms, how much ...
