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My Rap Guide to Climate Change

ven though there’s virtually nothing you can do as an individual to combat climate change, the problem remains solvable. It’s almost like a riddle, the world’s thorniest challenge. In my new off-Broadway production, “Rap Guide to Climate Chaos” (now running at the ), I delve into this dilemma, taking my literary inspiration from Chaucer’s . The audience is taken on a journey, guided by a well-intentioned rapper, poet, and truth-seeker—a naïve persona of myself—who tries to make sense of climate change and what it means for each

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