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I mean, I don't have much interest in talking to those people, to be honest, but I would say that those people who are making that point should look at just how many quote-unquote outlier events have happened within my lifetime.
And every year, at all points in the year, we have record-breaking weather events in various categories, so...
I think it is something that is at this point.
going to be impacting all of us in our daily lives, not only the direct impact of climate change, but also the impact of what we're going to have to start doing in order to change, you know, our entire system, the way that it works, because it is currently unsustainable.
And so, yeah, it's going to have to be acknowledged, you know, by the media every day, but also all of us in our day-to-day lives every day, because we have to change everything.
I mean, you know, currently all approaches to addressing climate change are working on both.
I mean, there is a certain amount of warming locked in now that we really can't change, as has been said, but there is also a significant amount that we can still limit.
But, of course, there is also a need for mitigation and adaptation.
And for, yeah, like as you've said, you know, making room to welcome probably climate refugees in the near future and also...
Yeah, as has been said, fossil fuels are deeply embedded in our systems.
They're embedded in everything that we do in our day-to-day lives.
I don't think that we fundamentally disagree actually on very much, but the reality is we do have to change that, and we can.
And the idea that we don't have alternatives to those things is actually not true.
It's going to be very, very difficult for us to change those things, but we can do it, and there is already a significant effort to do so.
Like, put your toes in the stream, connect with the land around you, absolutely.
And, you know, like, I had a childhood like that in...