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bettydice · 4 years

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(Planning the Day) To Meet You

Wangxian, Modern AU, Slow Burn, E-Rated

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Chapter 2

Tuesday, First Day with Wei Wuxian

The books Wei Wuxian has spread out over the table are all about veterinary medicine. Lan Wangji pictures Wei Wuxian working as a vet and the image of Wei Wuxian holding up a bunny to his face makes his heart skip a beat. He wants to ask Wei Wuxian whether he’s actually studying to become a vet to confirm his daydream, but he doesn’t.

As soon as Lan Wangi closes his laptop, because it is time for lunch (and it is already later than usual because he’s been having an argument with himself about whether he should ask Wei Wuxian to join him), Wei Wuxian rushes to give him back his pen, stuffs his books haphazardly into his bag (Lan Wangji cringes) and then stands up to leave, before Lan Wangji gets the chance to say anything.

“You’re so right, Lan Zhan, it is time to go. I already stayed longer than planned. Thank you for sharing your pen and your table with me!”

Lan Wangji can only nod and watch as he leaves.

He had hoped saying “I’m going to have lunch outside” would have prompted Wei Wuxian to invite himself, but now he missed his chance to test this theory. He wonders whether he’ll ever see Wei Wuxian again.

The pen is still warm in his hand.

Lan Wangji arrives at his usual time. He tries not to expect anything. It is a rare occasion that anyone approaches his table, so waiting for the same person to appear twice is a hopeless endeavour. Yet he catches himself looking up any time he hears the slightest noise, hoping it will turn into footsteps approaching.

Foolish.

No matter how hard he tries, his concentration stays elusive today. He has to read the chapter on “Music in the Tang Dynasty: Foreign Influences” three times before it registers in his brain and by then he has forgotten what information he was looking for and has to start all over again. Maybe this is a sign that he should not include it in his paper; he should be trying to narrow down his topic anyway, not be adding more to it. “Music And Poetry of the Tang Dynasty” is indeed way too broad a topic for a 20-page research paper. So far, Lan Wangji has read 16 books and filled 35 pages with notes. And now, when he needs his brain the most, it abandons him.

Wei Wuxian arrives at 11:25 a.m. and distracts Lan Wangji from his inner struggle. Wei Wuxian seems almost surprised to see Lan Wangji and for a while he just stands and stares at him, blinking. He appears to have no books with him today.

“Lan Zhan, you’re here again! Ah, I didn’t really think you would be, haha. Well, I’m just… just wanted to say hello, I suppose.”

“Hello.”

Wei Wuxian shakes his head then, as if to clear his mind, laughs, comes closer and leans against the table, basically sitting on it. Lan Wangji has to tip his head back a little to look into Wei Wuxian’s face and it is like staring straight into the sun.

“Are you here often then?"

“Not Sunday.”

“... soooo, you’re here every day but Sunday?”

“Mn.”

“I see! How nice, Lan Zhan, you’re such a diligent student, your professors must like you a lot. You probably don’t get scolded like me, haha. Well, I suppose I’ll see you around then. Tomorrow? What day is it tomorrow? Let me think, today Wen Ning made congee for breakfast, which means it is Wednesday... okay, I will meet you tomorrow! Thursday!”

“Mn.”

Tomorrow. Wei Wuxian will meet him tomorrow. He’ll be here, because Lan Wangji is here.

Lan Wangji only sees Wei Wuxian for five minutes today, but he is in a good mood for the rest of the day.

Apparently it shows on his face, because his brother mentions it during dinner. Lan Wangji doesn’t say more except that he had a good day at the library, which is not a lie. Xichen smiles and nods in the way he does, whenever he knows that Wangji isn’t telling him everything, but he won’t push. He never pushes.

Only when he is lying in bed, almost falling asleep, does a tiny, niggling worry appear at the back of his mind. Who is Wen Ning? Why is he cooking for Wei Wuxian? Friend? Flatmate? Cousin? Boyfriend? He is glad that Wei Wuxian gets proper meals one way or another and is not just simply eating prawn chips all day. But…

Maybe Xichen is right. Maybe his life is boring and lonely after all if his thoughts are so easily taken over by a stranger, simply because they keep smiling at him.

Thursday, Third Day with Wei Wuxian

Wei Wuxian shows up at 10:30 a.m. Today, he brought books but this time, as far as Lan Wangji can tell, they’re mostly about Hong Kong Cinema. Alright. Interesting.

Lan Wangji cannot muster the nerve to ask him whether he wants to have lunch together, but he also doesn’t want Wei Wuxian to get up and leave as soon as he closes his laptop again, so he… ignores his hungry stomach and keeps working.

Wei Wuxian leaves at 12:30 p.m. Lan Wangji thus has a very late lunch. His stomach is not happy but the rest of him is.

When he leaves the library at 4:30 p.m., someone calls his name as he walks by the lawn in front of the university. This is unprecedented. He whips his head around to see Wei Wuxian among the frolicking students, sitting next to… Nie Huaisang? He does not know what to do with the information that someone he knows also knows Wei Wuxian. At least that means that Wei Wuxian is not just a creation of his mind, but a real, wonderful person.

Wei Wuxian is wearing shorts and flip flops, and Lan Wangji’s brain insists that this is something he should take note of. He tries to argue with his brain that surely Wei Wuxian must have been wearing the same thing this morning and it hadn’t been a problem then, but his brain once again refuses to listen. Wei Wuxian has his hair in a high ponytail instead of a bun, stray hairs escaping still and his legs are crossed and bare and he looks carefree and is waving at Lan Wangji as though he’s happy to see him.

“Lan Wangji! Lan Zhan!”

Lan Wangji slowly approaches them, sees Nie Huaisang looking from Wei Wuxian to Lan Wangji with undisguised curiosity - undoubtedly wondering how and why he calls him ‘Lan Zhan’ - and then stands next to them, giving a curt nod as a greeting.

“Nice to see you, Lan Wangji. It’s been a while.”

“Likewise, Nie Huaisang.”

“You two know each other? Huaisang, how can you know someone like Lan Zhan and not tell me? Were you keeping him to yourself? How rude, how rude! Lan Zhan, come sit down and enjoy the sun with us!”

Lan Wangji does not sit down on the grass. It is not something he does; also he’s wearing white trousers. Wei Wuxian pouts while Nie Huaisang stares at him as though he has lost his mind for asking Lan Wangji to sit with them.

Despite feeling a bit stuffy in his clothes ever since he left the air-conditioned library, he now feels a cold chill run up his spine. Unrooted anxiety squeezes his heart and he nods again, turns around and briskly leaves, ignoring Wei Wuxian’s concerned “Lan Zhan? Are you okay?” and Nie Huaisang’s “I can’t believe you know Lan Wangji, call him Lan Zhan and just asked him to sit down on the grass” . He does not hear Wei Wuxian’s reply.

Friday, Fourth Day with Wei Wuxian

Despite Lan Wangji’s worries that he hopelessly embarrassed himself yesterday, Wei Wuxian shows up again at 10:30 a.m. and does not mention anything, nor does he act any differently.

This time, he brings only one book. “Equine Anatomy”. And then he begins to… draw. Really well. Lan Wangji has given up on trying to deduce what Wei Wuxian studies. Maybe he’s not a student at all, maybe he just sneaks into the library to read books on any topic that catches his eye. Whatever the reason, he is glad that Wei Wuxian spends time here, at this table.

At 11:30 a.m. Lan Wangji loudly declares “Lunch”, closes his laptop, stands up, and stares at Wei Wuxian for almost 20 seconds until he recognizes it for the invitation it was.

Lan Wangji eats his carefully cut up and packed vegetables and fruits and drinks his green tea. Wei Wuxian eats his prawn chips and drinks a coffee that he got from the frankly sketchy looking vending machine in the foyer of the library. Lan Wangji has never seen anyone else use it and is sure that it’s more likely to give you lasting bowel issues than to provide you with a tasty beverage. Wei Wuxian takes one sip and then says “Disgusting. Just what I need right now.”

Lan Wangji learns a lot about Wei Wuxian during lunch, because now there is no “no talking in the library” to hold him back and Lan Wangji is gifted with almost twenty minutes of Uninterrupted Wei Wuxian Talking Time.

Things he learns about Wei Wuxian during these twenty minutes:

Wei Wuxian studies Computer Sciences. Lan Wangji has trouble making sense of that, after the hodgepodge of books Wei Wuxian has been reading. He has yet to see Wei Wuxian with anything resembling a computer.

Wei Wuxian is 24, just like Lan Wangji. But he’s still busy with his BA, because he had to take a break last year for reasons Lan Wangji doesn’t know yet.

Wei Wuxian moves his hands a lot when he’s talking. Lan Wangji has to move his head a few times so he doesn’t get hit in the face.

Nie Huaisang and Wei Wuxian know each other from school. Apparently they used to call each other the The Three Drunken Masters (they were really into Jackie Chan movies back then) and ‘Jiang Cheng’ was also a part of that. As soon as he says that name, Wei Wuxian’s face, that is always so very expressive, turns blank, as though he’s very consciously trying not to show any emotion.

Twenty minutes of Uninterrupted Wei Wuxian Talking Time is not enough.

Saturday, Wei Wuxian-less

Wei Wuxian does not come to the library on the weekend. He had told Lan Wangji this. Lan Wangji still finds himself disappointed.

He spends a lot of time not thinking about his paper and instead thinking about Monday.

Sunday, Wei Wuxian-less

It is a Sunday and Lan Wangji’s inner peace is in serious trouble. No matter what he does, all his thoughts are drawn to Wei Wuxian. It is as though Wei Wuxian visited his flat while he was asleep and left his traces everywhere. Sweetness that lingers in the air and enters his mind with every breath.

While he makes breakfast, he wonders how Wei Wuxian might eat his. Does he eat breakfast at all or does he skip it? Does he eat congee every day or only when ‘Wen Ning’ makes it for him? Perhaps he’s the type to only drink coffee. He frowns at the thought. Lan Wangji does not have a coffee maker. Maybe it is time to buy one. Then he frowns again when he realises what he is doing here. There is no reason to assume that Wei Wuxian would ever share breakfast with him, especially not here, in his flat.

He decides to distract himself with reading and grabs the first book that catches his eye. It turns out to be a collection of love poetry that Nie Huaisang had given him once because “I would never dare to give you porn, so this is the next best thing”. Lan Wangji had long given up on understanding Huaisang’s logic and just accepted the gift instead of arguing.

He reads the first few poems with burning ears and realises quickly that this is… not the euphemism-heavy fare he’s expected. The verses are brimming with melancholy and speak of separation and longing. Of lovers that parted, lovers that never were.

Not… a good distraction.

He slams the book shut, forgets all about good posture and lets himself fall against the back of his couch, basically slouching, and stares at the ceiling.

Frustration mounts in him that apparently he has built his peace and happiness on such a fragile foundation that everything collapses as soon as he is slightly shaken.

Wei Wuxian hasn’t even done anything. All he did was sit down at his table, talk and smile, instead of turning around and walking away at the first sight of Lan Wangji’s frown. Has he really been lonely all this time and is now retroactively having a crisis about it, because he was finally made aware of it?

He’s always been aware of the fact that there’s one corner of his heart that has been cold and deserted ever since his mother died. No matter how much warmth he’d found in his brother’s smile, in a soft bunny paw on his hand, in bringing order to the chaos of history… It had never reached this furthest corner of his heart.

How could it be possible that he’d find it in this stranger from the library?

Wei Wuxian. Wei Wuxian. Wei Ying. Wei Wuxian.

Lan Wangji goes to the gym and tries to outrun his thoughts on the treadmill. He mostly succeeds.

Monday, Fifth Day with Wei Ying

Lan Wangji wakes up with a hard cock and an itchy heart. A dream, there was a dream… he tries to recall, but the morning sun chases all remains of the night away and the dream dissipates with them.

He decides to postpone his morning exercise until the evening and takes a shower to take care of himself. Even in this, Lan Wangji has a routine, knows how to satisfy himself in five minutes or less.

He takes himself in hand and quickly strokes himself to hardness, focusing on how he feels , instead of getting lost in specific images or fantasies.

Except this time, it’s not enough. His heart still itches with… something. He grips his cock harder, lavishes extra attention on the sensitive head, twists his hand on every other upstroke… There’s still something missing.

Then, a thought. “What if it was someone else’s hand.”

Then. “What if it was Wei Wuxian’s hand.”

Then. “What if Wei Ying was with me in the shower.”

Ah, he can imagine it so well, so easily.

Wei Ying naked, pressed against Lan Wangji’s back, his arms holding him, one hand splayed over his chest, one hand stroking his cock. He’d be just tall enough to whisper into Lan Wangji’s ear, breath hot against his skin.

“Mhm, Lan Zhan, look at you. So hard in my hand… you’re already close and we’ve barely just begun. So impatient. Lan Zhan, pretty Lan Zhan, this is all just for me, isn’t it?”

“Only for Wei Ying.”

Wei Ying strokes him faster, teasingly dips a finger into his slit and then squeezes, just how he likes it. Hot pleasure travels up his spine, coils deep in his stomach. Lan Wangji lets Wei Ying take over, lets him do whatever he wants.

He feels Wei Ying press kisses against his shoulder, his fingers playing with his cock as freely as with his pen.

It feels so good, Wei Ying feels so good and he wants…

Lan Wangji has Wei Ying pressed against the wall and he’s kissing him, kissing his lips, his neck, that collarbone and Wei Ying is laughing, loud and carefree and…

Lan Wangji comes so hard that he slips and only barely avoids falling and suffering a head injury that would be really difficult to explain.

Pressing his head against the cool tiles, he closes his eyes and breathes hard until he comes back to himself.

He cleans himself (and also has to clean the shower door, he’s embarrassed to notice), finishes his bathroom routine, gets dressed and then stares at himself in the mirror.

Fuck.

His heart is not itchy anymore but now it’s filled with dread. He feels as though… It’s not guilt, not exactly but he feels as though he has crossed boundaries that he only realised existed, once he’s looking back. It is one thing to fantasize about someone he finds attractive… but Lan Wangji went beyond that, didn’t he? He put words into Wei Wuxian’s mouth, words he’d never say but that he wants to hear and…

It is not a thing he can ask permission for, the thought alone makes him anxious… “Wei Wuxian, I would like to pleasure myself to thoughts of you and in my fantasies you talk a lot and you’re my boyfriend because casual sex is not appealing to me. Do I have your approval? Also, what do you eat for breakfast, I really want to know.”

No.

He wants to stay home today and hide under his blanket, because he’s sure that people will look at his face and know.

However, his wish to see Wei Ying… Wei Wuxian … is larger than his not-quite-guilt.

If Wei Wuxian was successful in reading his face and now knows his indecent shower secrets, he does not mention it. They spend their time at the library as usual. Lan Wangji marvels at this thought - now it is their time and they have a rhythm . (Wei Wuxian’s choice of reading today is: Artificial Intelligence. The first thing that could actually have something to do with Computer Sciences. No computer in sight yet.)

He tries to not think about this morning and hopes he’s able to find a good medium between Not Looking At Wei Wuxian Because He’ll Know and Looking At Wei Wuxian A Lot Because He Is Beautiful.

When Wei Wuxian leaves shortly after lunch, he feels exhausted. Lan Wangji never takes naps, Lans do not nap (one of Lan Qiren’s weirder rules, he’d been very strict about it nonetheless) but he could really use one right now.

Fuck.

#the untamed #mdzs #wangxian #lan wangji/wei wuxian #probs better to read on AO3 because who tf knows what tumblr will do to the formatting #betty drabbles #To Meet You verse

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thestusci · 6 years

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America has many problems. Sadly, I’d say that number exceeds 99, and also sadly, our policy on combating climate change is certainly one. The last two decades have seen 16 of the hottest years on record, in 2017 three major hurricanes blasted the Gulf Coast, wildfires and mudslides wrecked many California communities, and the midwest and northeast suffered one of the harshest winters in living memory. Glaciers continue to melt at an unprecedented rate, habitats are being destroyed, species are going extinct on a level not seen since the last major extinction event, sea levels are rising, smog blankets our cities, and worst of all, none of our politicians seem to care. Even though this is the most important problem by far, more important than universal healthcare or a balanced budget or a decrease in the deficit or the latest scandal, everyone focuses on those instead. To drive home why this issue is so important, let me start by mentioning the fact that at present, humans exist only on one place: Earth. Although there are efforts to put life elsewhere, those efforts through NASA have stalled, and even efforts through Elon Musk’s SpaceX (I’m going to be mentioning him a lot, just a heads up, he’s central to many of today’s developments towards a better tomorrow) won’t begin putting people on Mars until the decade is up. Thus, if we screw up Earth, we screw up our own lives. How much will who the president slept with or colluded with matter when the president, along with the rest of us, is no longer among the living because our planet was destroyed by our greed and short-sightedness? Thus, addressing all sides of the global climate change issue will be the defining endeavour of our generation, fixing it will require changes to our electric grid and changes to our transport, neither of which will be easy.

First, let’s examine the problem at hand, and get a little context into how we’ve attempted to solve it. Climate change is caused by the large-scale burning of fossil fuels. Burning things, in and of itself, usually isn’t hazardous, as long as whatever you’re burning would’ve been returned to the carbon cycle in the relatively near future. So, burning a log isn’t an issue, because the log would’ve decomposed and released its carbon back into the atmosphere within decades anyway. No, the problem comes from burning fossil fuels, which have been trapped beneath the ground, and thus not a part of the carbon cycle, for millions of years. Doing so releases carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that warms the atmosphere, into the world. To see what an extreme case of greenhouse pollution would be like, look no farther than Venus, the atmosphere is so dense with greenhouse gases that the planet is 800 degrees fahrenheit, day and night, and the pressure has destroyed all probes sent to the surface from Earth within an hour. Now be fortunate that that isn’t Earth, yet.

To solve this problem, politicians must figure out a way to reduce carbon emissions, and quickly, because even a shift of a few degrees in average temperature will prove disastrous. As if this problem weren’t already enough of a nuisance, politicians (and the informed public) must also deal with the climate skeptic. These are people who are either paid off by industries that must die to preserve the Earth, or people who for whatever reason dislike the idea or find that burying their heads in the sand is far easier than actually solving the problem, or they are misinformed. Whatever the case, only 45% of Americans actually realize that climate change is going to affect them in their lifetime, when the sad truth is, it’s already beginning to affect us. When the democrats controlled Congress in 2009, they attempted to pass a bill called Waxman-Markey that would’ve given carbon credits to some companies to be traded, allowing an effective cap on emissions, but the bill was sacrificed to pass the Affordable Care Act in the Senate, and never became law. Another Obama-era solution for climate change was the Clean Power Plan, meant to cut pollution emitted from power plants, and move towards more renewable resources, yet Trump’s first move in office was to undo this, and pull out of an international agreement to cut carbon emissions, the Paris Climate Agreement, just because he feels the need to undo anything Obama has done, good or bad. The majority of car companies don’t have serious investment in pure electric cars, preferring to keep dancing with oil, most of the world’s power still comes from fossil fuels, and not a single politician has a comprehensive plan at the moment to save us. So, we’re leaving climate change, the single biggest threat to humanity in our times, to individual citizens.

To save our climate, two main things stand out: the first is a massive emitter of carbon, contributing to 28% of all U.S. emissions, the car out in your driveway; the second, contributing to 28% in generating electricity and 22% in industry, is burning of coal for power. Let’s investigate the former first. As I said before, the car industry is doing very little in the way shifting from oil. So, consumers, in addition to having to pay for the car itself, have to pay for the gas that powers the car. For a moment, let’s forget about the fact that burning that fuel screws the environment in the long run and just focus on the consumer economics. According to AAA Gas Prices, a year ago the average price per gallon of gas was $2.351. According to the Washington Post, in 2012 cars had an average consumption of 26.4 miles per gallon. From the New York Times, we know that the average car lives for about 200,000 miles. Thus, we can calculate that over its lifetime, a car uses roughly 7,576 gallons of gas. (Miles/miles per gallon). Multiplying this cost by the average price of gas, and we get that to fuel our cars we must pay an additional $17,810 over the car’s lifespan. Considering that the industry average price of a car is already $36,113 according to Kelly Blue Book, and you are looking at paying AT LEAST $53,923.61 over the span of your car’s life. This also doesn’t take into account things a gas car needs such as oil changes, engine maintenance, et cetera, not to mention that owners often sell their cars at highly depreciated prices before the car even dies, instead favoring to buy another car that costs more resources to build, and so the cycle continues. At the moment, the best alternative is from a company called Tesla, headed by Elon Musk (told you you’d see him again), that sells at the moment upper-middle class to luxury class cars. The luxury Tesla Roadster is over a quarter of a million dollars, the Model S and Model X each cost between fifty and a hundred thousand dollars, the Model 3 is experiencing problems in production, but is the closest to the $36,113 industry average. However, this price is not reflective of two facts. The first of these facts is that the government gives a $7,500 tax rebate for buying electric. So, the Model S, which starts at $74,500 could be priced at a slightly more modest $67,000 after rebate. Further, this is the price you are paying for the entire life of the car. Electric vehicles don’t require nearly as much service as gas cars, because they only consist of the batteries and powertrain that actually turns the wheels. Further, you aren’t paying for gas, so no more adding nearly twenty thousand dollars to the overall price of the car. Add in top safety ratings and self-driving features, and that Model S now seems better than its gas-based competitors, right? The Model 3 is meant to be the competition for the average sedan, and once they get rolling, pricing will start at $35,000 for the normal battery, and be $44,000 for long range. Factor in the rebate, and the Model 3 can compete with the industrial average, even the long range is a mere $400 more than average. Then factor in the savings on gas, and it seems like a no-brainer! However, while Tesla is growing, their resources are limited, and unless the government and other automakers step in, the long-term effects may be too slow to stop climate change. Further, opponents of Tesla argue that all you do is change the location of the burning of fossil fuels. So, we also need to revamp our electric grid and its sources.

At present, 63% of our energy is produced by fossil fuels. As previously discussed, this is extremely bad, and we must do everything we can to change it and get that number down to 0%. Again, we’ll look at the problem from an economic standpoint, barring the fact that without shifting entirely to renewables, we’re all screwed. Exhibit one is this: fossil fuels in themselves are a limited resource, if they weren’t, they’d be cheaper than they are now because we’d have an abundance. Basic economic principles state the a primary reason for high cost is high scarcity, which also means that as we continue to consume oil, prices will continue to rise, so the $2.351 average from last year might become $2.451 this year, and in twenty years may be $23.51, so from a consumer’s standpoint, the sooner we can move away from a scarce resource, lessening demand and increasing price, the sooner we can keep money in our wallets. Exhibit two deals in the environmental damages we incur, Hurricanes Harvey and Irma alone incurred between $150-200 billion in damages. Anyhow, going back to a purely economic standpoint, a third thing to consider is the price of energy, or in this case, price of extraction of fossil fuels and upkeep of the plants that burn them. It is estimated that a 600 megawatt coal plant will cost $2 billion to build. A solar farm with the same output would cost about half that price to build. As for the fuel, all you have to do for the solar plant is keep the panels clean, this might create a decent market for menial labor, so kids of the future may not flip burgers, but instead wipe down solar panels to power their phones. For fossil fuels, the primary one burned in electricity production being coal, you have to pay people to labor in dangerous conditions to extract the coal, then pay more people to transport it (not to mention paying for the fuel that the transport uses and the costs associated with extracting/transporting that, the spiral goes on and on), then pay more people to load it into the furnace and light it. A solar farm, however, only has to sit there and remain clear in order to produce its power, it’s literally free power from the Sun. So, not only could the government pass legislation to subsidize solar farms, it could also work to open its own solar farms. Republicans always worry about our increasing debt, why not start producing something useful (energy) and selling it on both domestic and foreign markets? The U.S. has one of the driest places on Earth in Death Valley, as well as a place where the Sun rarely sets (Alaska), so why not invest in such an easy resource? Further, the government could provide similar tax rebates to those who opt to turn their home into an independent utility by purchasing solar panels. Again bringing up Elon Musk, his Solar City, a subsidiary of Tesla, provides installation of solar panels and what they call the Powerwall, a large battery to store excess solar power for when it isn’t daytime or clear, which would quickly pay for itself in electric bills, in fact, if you produce an excess, you may be paid by the utility companies for the electricity you feed into the grid. In addition, there are options that include installation of normal solar panels, or a unique solar roof that looks like ordinary material to complement the architecture of your house. The government could expedite the widespread adaptation of such systems by offering tax rebates and financial aid in installation. This would further be beneficial because you’d create jobs in the installation and upkeep of the solar grid. In this way, we might gain economic freedom from the costly plague of fossil fuels. That method of energy production is as ancient as the dinosaurs that died to make them!

To sum the issue up, we must make climate change the foremost issue in our thoughts. We must stop denying the science behind climate change, and start supporting the solutions. I’ll conclude with a great meme that sums up the current American political system on climate change.

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Kaplan, Karen. “When It Comes to Views on Climate Change, Liberals and Conservatives Are Still Worlds Apart.” Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2016, http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-climate-change-political-views-20161004-snap-story.html.

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Meyer, Robinson. “Democrats Are Shockingly Unprepared to Fight Climate Change.” The Atlantic, Atlantic Media Company, 16 Nov. 2017, http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/11/there-is-no-democratic-plan-to-fight-climate-change/543981/.

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