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Speaker 1: But fast forward again, and it took a while, but

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Speaker 1: And now you know, we kind of went from don't

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Speaker 3: Welcome to I'm fucking the future. Like you, I get

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Speaker 3: on my phone every morning I see the headlines about

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Speaker 3: we've got to put our heads together and actually solve

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Speaker 3: on the path to a better future. I'm your host,

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Speaker 3: Chris Turning and this is unfucking the future.

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Speaker 2: Fucking the future.

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Speaker 3: It's not hard to notice the effects of climate change.

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Speaker 3: For hundreds of millions of people. It's right on their doorstep.

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Speaker 4: Triple digit temperatures for days on in smoke from record

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Speaker 4: Opinion polls find growing concern about climate change. Psychologists say

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Speaker 4: that can be a positive thing, spurring people to action.

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Speaker 3: That's John Yang, a correspondence for PBS News Hour.

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Speaker 4: But for some people it becomes an overwhelming sense of

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Speaker 3: Last episode, we heard from a young climate activist about

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Speaker 3: Honestly, it's genuinely, it really is. It's just been a

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Speaker 2: Weird fucking the future. We're a fucking the future.

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Speaker 3: It wouldn't be an episode of I'm Fucking the Future

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Speaker 7: The first thing I want to recommend is a book.

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Speaker 7: It's a book called It's Not Just You by Tory Sue.

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Speaker 7: She's an amazing activist and this book will help you

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Speaker 7: feel that you're not alone. And then the second thing

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Speaker 7: you can do is find a support group, and for

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Speaker 7: that I want to recommend A great website was put

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Speaker 7: together by the rapper Megan the Stallion and it is

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Speaker 7: called bad Bitches Have Bad Days Too dot com.

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Speaker 3: Oh yes, I presume that's a reference to a song anxiety,

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Speaker 3: So it's probably my favorite maketrack off to Beautiful Mistakes.

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Speaker 7: Wow, Chris, you really know the Megan thee Stallion Cadillac.

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Speaker 7: I am very impressed. Yes, anxiety is about mental health

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Speaker 7: and Megan and her team have put together this amazing

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Speaker 7: you find support for what you're going through, whomever and

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Speaker 7: wherever you are. For example, the site has links to

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Speaker 7: and the directory of resources specifically tailored to at risk

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Speaker 7: and historically marginalized communities. So whoever you are, you'll be

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Speaker 7: able to find useful mental health support at Bad Bitches

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Speaker 7: Have Bad Days too dot com.

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Speaker 1: And of course, as always.

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Speaker 7: You can talk to your doctor, your guidance counselor faith

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Speaker 7: leader or whoever your trusted figure is about what you're feeling.

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Speaker 7: The first step to managing these feelings is understanding that

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Speaker 7: you're not alone.

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Speaker 3: Oh thanks, Maggie, And that's what the fuck you can

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Speaker 3: do this week? What fuck can I do?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 5: Fucked?

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Speaker 3: That's it for now. Next time, on the fucking the Future,

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Speaker 3: we're talking to one of the greats, an absolute giant

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Speaker 6: You know there's some people who can't reach there, just

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Speaker 6: spend too much time listening to you know, Donald Trump

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Speaker 6: or Rush Limbaugh or something. With older people, there's definitely

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Speaker 6: the idea that, and it turns out to be correct,

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Speaker 6: that your grand grandkids will h will think you're cool,

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Speaker 6: I think it's just a sense of responsibility. I mean, look,

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Speaker 6: climate change is basically at test at this point of

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Speaker 6: whether the Big Brain was a good adaptation or not.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for joining me and I'm Fucking the Future. See

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Speaker 3: you next time.

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Speaker 2: We're Fucking the Future.

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Speaker 3: Awfully Nice for iHeart Podcasts and hosted by me Chris Turney.

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