Given the impending environmental crisis, Earth Day should probably be a pretty sober affair these days, and we should all be forcing ourselves to confront the realities of what awaits us in the very near future. Climate change journalists like The New York Times’ Sheri Fink, The Guardian’s Oliver Milman, and author Dahr Jamail face will be sharing their stories from the front line on Monday night, April 22, at a panel at the Brooklyn Historical Society, and they won’t be sugarcoating anything about this hugely important, highly politicized topic. Chroniclers of the Climate Apocalypse starts at 6pm and tickets are $5.