
This piece was published in shorter form in the February 2020 newsletter of the Bay Area Chapter of the Climate Reality Project.
On January 22nd the Bay Area chapter held its first-ever climate salon at marketing firm Kiterocket’s SF outpost. Titled Predictions & Hope, this inaugural salon aimed to, in the words of chapter co-presidents Steve Richard and Wei-Tai Kwok, “share fun or bold predictions that we’d like to make for the upcoming decade, reasons for hope, and effective methods of coping while we wait for the changes we need.”
It was inspired programming for the first of these TED-style talks, given that we’re entering a tumultuous year that will define whether the US moves to boldly stem the climate crisis or sinks further into the swampy muck now lapping at our literal and figurative shores. Let’s start the year with some hope, shall we? Over 30 folks found that notion promising enough to show up and hear four speakers spin their tales.
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