Bridges
Seasons In The Sun:
How Does Climate Shape Our Identity and Community?
June 8, 2025
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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.
More questions may be added as the event approaches.
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​What are you looking forward to this spring/summer? For some folks in Canada, the relatively short warm-weather seasons causes a more casual, fun, and peaceful experience than the rest of the year. Is this your experience? If it isn't your experience, do you see this phenomenon in wider society? How can we make the best aspects of the summer season more equitably available to everyone?
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What changes in your life practically, emotionally, or relationally when the spring and summer arrives? What is your experience of winter like?
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Has climate change impacted you personally? Have you seen differences develop over your lifetime? How do you cope with strings of extremely smokey days in row? How can we engage personal climate change impacts as a larger society given the polarized debate about human caused climate change?
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How does the environment shape us as individuals? How does it shape our culture/s? How much choice do you have over what you experience in our larger environment (IE: Are you able to get outside very often? Are the mountains easily accessible for you or difficult to travel to? Do you, or people you know, encounter bariers to experiencing positive aspects of the part of the world we live in?
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The (very old) song linked below that is the title for this conversation includes both happy summer memories, and the meloncoly of end-of-life reflections. How do you find yourself emotionally affected by the climate crisis? Does enjoyment of nice weather hold melancholy for you now? Are younger generations able to enjoy the out-of-doors as much as older ones did when they were young?