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title: Please
date: 2009-11-14T22:00:24Z
modified: 2009-11-14T22:23:34Z
permalink: "https://350.org/please/"
type: post
status: publish
excerpt: If you want to understand what countries mean when they talk about survival, visit a place like Koro Island, Fiji--14 villages in the mid-Pacific, who have done nothing at all to cause the temperat
wpid: 13894
author: Bill McKibben
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If you want to understand what countries mean when they talk about survival, visit a place like Koro Island, Fiji–14 villages in the mid-Pacific, who have done nothing at all to cause the temperature to rise. It’s really quite a miracle that they ask so politely.

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