Ask Umbra
Grist’s destination for advice on life during climate change. Est. 2002
Past Umbra
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I was attacked by a driver. Do cars make us angrier?
Nothing in life is free, including the right to an open road.
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How do I get my husband to care about the climate?
About climate change, or the environment, or any of those life-or-death abstract things.
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Can I have my climate-friendly seafood and eat it, too?
It's complicated, but we figured out some ground rules.
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Can I just work on the Paris Agreement myself?
No one wants to hear “actually, you can’t do it by yourself.” But that's how it is sometimes.
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Why is bus ridership falling almost everywhere except Pittsburgh?
We headed to the Paris of Appalachia to investigate this transit mystery -- the best kind of mystery.
