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If you’re angry about President Trump’s decision on the Paris climate accord, I’m right there with you. But anger won’t solve the problem. So I encourage you to ponder this question:

What would a more politically persuasive message about climate change sound like?

I don’t pretend to know the answer, but I do think it’s worth some humble reflection. So far, those of us agonizing over the planet’s future have failed to win over enough of our fellow citizens to accomplish what we desperately believe to be necessary.

Climate change, clearly, is real. It’s already doing damage in our country and abroad. To take one chilling example, a crack in the Antarctic ice shelf has grown 17 miles in just the last week.