“If this feels like life or death, that’s because it is. There’s an analogy about what happens when you microwave a bag of popcorn. During that first minute? You don’t see anything happening, even though it is. The heat has gotten inside the kernel, and the steam is roiling beneath the surface, creating a chemical change. But you don’t see, hear, or smell it, so it doesn’t seem real. That’s why society at large has ignored climate change for so long—it wasn’t immediately evident. Right now, this change doesn’t seem real to so many of you, because if it did, you would preserve every resource
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