To the career politician I encountered at a protest in Chester last week. You tried to overawe me with your references and by claiming that you studied history and meteorology, not realizing that I’m working on a dissertation in the history of science and that I have among my acquaintances climate researchers who’ve spent time in Churchill, and historians who specialize in the history of climate change. Instead you underwhelmed me with your arguments about how anthropogenic climate change isn’t really a problem because climate is changing all the time: just think of the little ice age, right? Right? No. Your arguments were specious and cynical, and when I called you out on them you flat out told me that you didn’t have to care, because only young people think about climate change, and they don’t vote. Say bollocks to a politician, please vote. —A Young Voter