Serena McIlwain at COP29
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McILWAIN: “Sometimes you don’t have — the question was, when — when are Americans going to wake up and see that climate change is an issue? You don’t have to tell them. The weather is changing. The floods, the flooding, the heat islands, all the climate issues and changes that are happening in front of all of us, there will be a point where no one can deny it. We’re almost there now because summers are gone, and on the East Coast, where you have four seasons, we’re down to maybe one or two. Where you’re supposed to have a lot of snow in some areas, there’s zero. And so, all these things are impacting families. And so right now the survey says 51 percent in America. I guarantee you, the survey may say that, but everyone’s eyes will be open soon, and we hope that we don’t have to continue to have these kinds of crises that are happening in order for people to open their eyes. But it is coming.”