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Climate Change: The Forgotten Crisis

April 12, 2026

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Discussion Questions

These questions are just to start and aid discussion. Please skip around in the list, indulge diversions, and let your discussion develop naturally.

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  1. When was the last time you discussed climate change?

  2. How do you handle the torrent of other problems dominating the news cycle? Does climate change seem like "just too much to think about" when shorter term issues relentlessly discourage us?

  3. Have you encountered positive environmental news in recent times? (Protection of natural areas, progress in green technology, climate change regulation, etc). Did you watch the video below about the global progress we've made in mitigating climate change? Did it have any emotional effect on you?

  4. Are you familiar with green washing? How do you make personal environmentally conscious decisions with green washing obscuring actual environmental impacts?

  5. Before heavy anti-renewables regulation was passed by the UCP, Alberta was a Canadian leader in solar and wind power. Do you think we'll be able to regain this status? How? Is it too late to get back a competitive advantage given how far other jurisdictions have advanced?

  6. Have you personally engaged climate change deniers? Do you have any practical tools for conversing with people who reject evidence based decision making? Do you have any tools for talking to people who exclusively get information from social media, AI, corporately controlled news companies, and pseudo-news sites?

  7. Does your own sense of urgency in engaging climate change shift with how prevalent short term, local impacts are at any given time? (For example: Does it seem more immediate to you and those close to you when Calgary has a summer dominated by fire smoke? Do you feel less worried when we have a long string of days with clear skies?)

  8. Whether it be the pall of climate change, or other threats to peace, equity and quality of life, how do you find motivation and hope in this era?

  9. The fossil fuel and mining industries are a significant part of the current Canadian economy. What are your thoughts on how these industries are regulated (and not regulated) provincially and federally? What are your thoughts on how profits from these industries are distributed (between workers, executives, shareholders, and citizens via taxes)?

  10. Detox discussion: Put aside the doom of climate change for a minute and simply tell us about a recent time you've enjoyed a natural area. 

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Background Discussion Material

Material listed here is intended  to enhance discussion. The inclusion of these materials is not an endorsement of their authors or the organizations publishing them. We encourage you to fact check any claims made in these materials. 
 

The planet is overheating. Why is the news looking away?

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Most King's Bridge gatherings take place in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, which is Treaty 7 territory. This is part of the traditional home of the Blackfoot Confederacy (which includes the Siksika, Piikani, and Kainai First Nations), the Îethka Nakoda Wîcastabi First Nations (which includes the Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Wesley First Nations), and the Tsuut’ina First Nations. Calgary is also part of the homeland of the Northwest Métis and Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3.

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