What a relief. It turns out Democratic representative for New York, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, was just joking when she said in January that that ‘the world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change’. ‘You’d have to have the social intelligence of sea sponge to think it’s literal,’ she tweeted this week, adding that it was just ‘dry humour + sarcasm.
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