"...some might say it is cynical to talk at length about climate change only when you are speaking to college students — a group who cares a great deal about the issue but can’t do bloody much about it. Where is Dumbledore when you need him?"
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Still, maybe we could treat these speech(es) as a tiny step in the direction of sanity...