Five years ago, the group endorsing the new emoji rejected one for climate change. It's time for them to rethink that decision.

After a summer of droughts, floods, fires and heat waves, which is not even over yet, the consequences of climate change are becoming more apparent and a growing number of people are suffering from climate anxiety .

Obviously, the real solution is to manage the mess by rapidly reducing carbon emissions and working on technologies that eliminate at least some of the carbon that people have emitted since the beginning of the industrial revolution . We are making progress, even if it is not yet enough.

It has left many people helpless. While there are some things they can do to take action, there is another coping mechanism at hand, which is very easy to do: talk about it.

Yet that's exactly what people don't do. According to the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, an overwhelming majority of Americans rarely or never talk about climate change, while only 35% talk about it "at least occasionally".

This has to change, if not for the climate, at least for our sanity. In a 2021 survey of young people (16-25) in 10 countries, 59% said they were very or extremely