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The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject.

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Ian Mcewan
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: June 21
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Film Producer
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Was everyone else really as alive as she was?...If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone's thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone's claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was.
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A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.
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