“Climate change, like the loss of parents, necessitates an experience of grieving,” the 32-year-old author says. Currently, she’s heading to Iceland, and then Alaska, on a tour of lectures about climate change. If anything, climate change has shined a really bright light on the rampant inequities of the human condition on this planet. Climate change is made up of millions people, human beings with human lives. Climate change is not an enemy to be vanquished; it is a phenomenon deeply tied to our daily lived existence.