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you have a situation where we really need to be taking serious action on climate change, and we’re still having this surreal—I guess I would use the … - Elizabeth Kolbert
" "you have a situation where we really need to be taking serious action on climate change, and we’re still having this surreal—I guess I would use the word—debate over whether it’s happening or not. And I think a clip like that shows that, you know, people are really speaking entirely different languages. We’re just not even speaking to each other using—you know, we’re using English, but we’re not really speaking the same language. We’re not looking at the same—well, some people are looking at scientific data, and some people are not, let me just put it that way. And it’s very, very hard to carry on, you know, a reasonable and sort of post-Enlightenment conversation.
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Elizabeth Kolbert (born July 6, 1961) is an American journalist, author, and visiting fellow at Williams College.
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