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Small Talk/Big Issue

Two panels entitled 'A Brief history of talking about the weather'. First panel, 'Then...', shows two people having a conversation. Second panel, 'Now', the same two people in distress hold up their phones.

Climate change was regularly in the news in 2023. Fiona Katauskas acknowledges a global shift in thinking when discussing something as innocuous as the weather, which was considered a ‘safe’ topic of conversation throughout most of the twentieth century. In this cartoon, Katauskas’s characters wear 1970s clothing in the first frame, placing them in a time just before the impact of climate change was widely recognised.