Hans Ladegaard News Today

Migrant domestic workers support many Hong Kong working families in childcare and household duties but their own personal needs seldom receive significant attention.

When I read news about the latest IPCC climate assessment report, or predictions of imminent mass extinction, I admit that the statistics — the exact degree of warming, the number of feet sea levels will rise, how many species will die — find fewer footholds in my brain than the overwhelming sorrow they elicit.

Climate activism is most effective when it taps into the pain of grieving instead of repeating statistics that overwhelm people into numbness.