“Good evening, I’m Wilfred Sterling. Welcome to yet another episode of AI talk. I have here with me, climatologist Dr. Julia Simkin who is here to discuss the climate crisis and the media.”

“Thank you for having me, Wilfred.”

“Dr. Simkin, you’re behind the new ‘AI PSA Climate Campaign’ to advocate for climate awareness. It’s been shown that your well-funded AI interventions have worked with scripts in movies, advertising, and social media providing a climate awareness spin often subtle through body language, background scenes, and context. Your critics say you’re forcing the issue and deliberately shutting out skeptics or those who embrace ‘alternative facts’ — they also claim you’re using scare tactics to make every human being fear a conjured-up looming crisis. Others say it’s natural, and we should let nature take its course. What do you say to them?”

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“Well, Wilfred, first, I say to the last group, climate change awareness is about humans causing climate grief on themselves. If you think most people understand or respect nature, well, we wouldn’t be in this mess if that were the case … as to the other claims …”

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John shut down the stream. “Climate this and climate that, it’s all he ever talks about now!”

“John, why did you shut down my stream?” asked his wife, Margaret. “And can you close the windows and turn on the AC? I’m roasting alive in here!”