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title: "Video: Peace Corps volunteers tell their climate stories"
date: 2009-11-12T18:23:26Z
modified: 2009-11-12T18:24:49Z
permalink: "https://350.org/video-peace-corps-volunteers-tell-their-climate-stories/"
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status: publish
excerpt: Among the many who turned out on Oct.
wpid: 13874
author: Bill McKibben
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Among the many who turned out on Oct. 24 in Washington DC were returned Peace Corps volunteers, Americans who had gone abroad to do development work in many countries–and seen the toll climate change was already taking on those places. They give you some sense of the urgency. Climate change is not a future threat, it’s a very present reality: