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Is the Climate Crisis putting a tax on your relationships?
The worst tax of all is taxing our crucial relationships to the breaking point
People are very polarized, as you notice each day now. One ever-widening division is about climate.
We cannot escape the biggest carbon elephant to ever enter a room
At home, at the office, at the store, in your business dealings, it is difficult to breach certain topics. But, you should anyway. Challenging times make these issues impossible to ignore for much longer.
After all, your business and all of your relationships are all affected by these issues. When I visited the mainland recently, my sister, (who I love) said some pretty scary stuff about her non belief in the climate crisis, among other controversial topics. She also knows that her god hates homosexuality, for one, and #Me too is threatening manhood.
But, the main topic was climate change.
People are defensive about “man made” climate change because the implication is that we are all guilty. People can’t face the idea of being blamed, and in fact, they shouldn’t.
The carbon elephant comes trumpeting into the room, and the room is everywhere.