How to stay sane in the face of climate change.

On an unusually hot morning in Washington, D.C., particularly for early November, sunlight beamed through the large windows at the American Psychological Association’s headquarters, framing the long expanse of the National Mall and the Washington Monument off in the distance. The setting was peaceful, but tensions, like the outside temperature, ran high: the U.S. presidential election was just five days away, and the media cycle — already whipped into a frenzy by months of acerbic news — had been punctuated by a barrage of unprecedented FBI leaks that seemed to threaten the very foundation of the democratic election.

Greenpeace activists form the word "Hope?" in the sand.

Inside one of the building’s airy conference rooms, Bob Doppelt, executive director of the Resource Innovation Group, rose to address a group of about 50 people. They were there, he reminded them, for a first-of-its-kind conference, one that had attracted participants from all over the world. He lead the group in a brief exercise in meditation — an unorthodox beginning, perhaps, for some conferences — asking attendees to close their eyes, notice their breath, notice their thoughts, notice their sensations.

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