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By Jack Andritsch - High Country News | November 17, 2018

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To Fight Climate Change Denial, Try Telling a Good Story

Sometimes a polar bear is a living symbol of climate change. Other times an image of a dying polar bear is basically raw meat for the people who want to deny the truth about global warming and demonize the scientists who are researching and communicati …

BY John R. Platt - The Revelator | October 22, 2018

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