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Their wordsConspiracy theories are just too dangerous in a place where everyone needs to grapple with actual reality in order to survive.
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People generally underestimate serious natural threats such as pandemics and climate change.
Their wordsOf course that's true for the rest of the planet, but somehow we don't take natural threats seriously, whether from plagues or climate change.
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The Trump administration's approach to Greenland is widely perceived as threatening across Europe.
Their wordsThe Trump administration's ongoing obsession with Greenland feels menacing to everyone in Scandinavia, indeed everyone in Europe.
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