{"id":363725,"date":"2017-03-21T02:30:22","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T06:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grist.org\/?post_type=grist-50-profiles&amp;p=363725"},"modified":"2017-03-21T02:30:22","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T06:30:22","slug":"climate-change-feels-like-a-problem-for-future-generations-trisha-shrum-and-jill-kubit-bring-the-future-into-dialogue-with-the-present","status":"publish","type":"grist-50-profiles","link":"https:\/\/grist.org\/grist-50\/profile\/climate-change-feels-like-a-problem-for-future-generations-trisha-shrum-and-jill-kubit-bring-the-future-into-dialogue-with-the-present\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate change feels like a problem for future generations. 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When Kubit heard about the letter in a student group, something clicked, and the pair decided to publish a collection of public letters, from this generation to the next, which would recast climate change from vague to personal.<\/p>\n<p>[pullquote share=&#8221;true&#8221; tweet=&#8221;\u201cWhen people write to their own children, instead the apocalypse, they envision a better path.\u201d&#8221; hashtag=&#8221;Grist50&#8243; cite=&#8221;Trisha Shrum&#8221;]\u201cWhen people write to their own children, instead of envisioning the apocalypse, they envision a better path &#8212; a future I would want to leave for my kids.&#8221;[\/pullquote]<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deartomorrow.org\/en\/home\/\">DearTomorrow<\/a> was born. \u201cWe want to give people a lens to look at the issue differently,\u201d Kubit says, \u201cto get people to think about climate change through the eyes of their own children and grandchildren.\u201d The online community is now a forum for more than 500 letters, photos, and video messages. 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