"...Because when the end of the world is your day job, you better figure out how to chill the hell out on summer vacation."

Erika Spanger-Siegfried, a senior analyst in the Climate and Energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), shares some tongue-firmly-in-cheek vacation tips for her fellow end-of-days day-job people. In a time of climate emergency, many of these tips could also help anybody who looks unblinkingly at the reality of climate change.