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Twenty-seventh online page shows physician telling story about how important the issue was.
Dialogue:
But mainly, it’s important. Any part I could play in helping address the most pressing issue facing humanity, I’m in! 
How important?
Let me tell you a story.
Way back when, as people began to realise what climate change might mean, it hit them pretty hard.
A marine ecologist was in a meeting. This was 1998.
They were talking about the chemistry of seawater. How carbon dioxide in the air mixes into the oceans and changes their acidity…
In an instant she had a clear vision of what was at risk…
The potential collapse of marine ecosystems. Food chains might disintegrate.
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Twenty-eighth online page shows scientist running to the bathroom to puke - teacher gently reminding students that we laugh when we're uncomfortable but it wasn't funny - then Greta Thunberg shown as symbol of rising youth activism.
Dialogue:
She ran to the bathroom and barfed
Everything was at risk, everything!
It’s normal to laugh when we’re feeling uncomfortable. And it’s nice to think that we *can* laugh about it now!
The thing is… it really wasn’t funny
Luckily, students back then did more than laugh at the uncomfortable situation… They saw it as unbearable. And so they did something.
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Twenty-ninth online page shows blend of student's leaving school and school strikers rising across 100 year time split.
Dialogue:
They left their classrooms and took to the streets on Friday school strikes.  
And grownups joined them...
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