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Frame climate action as clean air to bypass politics
Climate change can be addressed without even invoking it by appealing to the desire for clean air, since eliminating particulate pollution—which kills millions globally each year from emphysema and cardiac arrest—solves for climate change while focusing on tangible, immediate benefits rather than hypothetical risks.
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Sam HarrisEvidence Quote
“rather than guilt trip people over risks that seem merely hypothetical to most of them, why not focus on how much nicer our world could be if we weren't breathing bad air everywhere?”
Created: 6/14/2026, 2:50:28 AM
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