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The climate is changing dating

"Could there be anything less sexy than buying into fossil fuel propaganda?"

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Emily Atkin
Jan 20, 2020
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Katharine Wilkinson has been on a lot of first dates. But she’s only ever walked out on one.

It was 2013 at a bar in mid-town Atlanta, Georgia, and Wilkinson had just published a book about evangelical Christians and the climate crisis. Her date was a guy from the dating app OKCupid. She doesn’t rem…

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