Me too. Start a discussion of the global climate crisis at the typical cocktail hour, professional conference, or whatever and you will quickly find yourself abandoned or shunned. I have found, however, a potential solution: when engaging neighbors out in their yards, I’ll bring up—not the Crisis itself, but rather my own idea of a (local) solution: organizing neighborhood garden guilds where people meet periodically to exchange home-grown produce and share ideas about gardening. My slogan for this initiative is likewise upbeat and inviting: Grow Gardens; Grow Community; and Grow Awareness. And this way—without mentioning the bad news (that our industrial civilization is doomed and so, in all likelihood, are we all)—I get people involved in a local project that will make them more resilient and reduce their dependence on collapsing global infrastructures—and relearn how to rely on one another!