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Your nose is running. You need a tissue, stat, because you’re a mess, tears on your chin, your eyes burn, and you’re all snotty.

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.

A massive fire, which erupted early Saturday in a vacant building in New York City’s East Village, spread to and destroyed one of the city’s oldest churches that is home to New York’s Liberty Bell, among other structures, including a women’s shelter.

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

As one commenter noted: This is inciting terrorism.