UN Bribes Writers: Make Up A Climate Change Story; Win A Free Trip To Paris

The United Nations and Oxfam are offering a prize to young writers who can come up with the best story raising “awareness of the harmful impacts of climate change on communities”. (H/T Climate Depot)

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Here’s my entry:

Once upon a time there was a fierce and terrifying beast called ManBearPig. He was the most dangerous creature the world had ever seen, rightly feared by everyone save those paid large sums by the oil industry to deny his existence. His favourite diet was the innocent children of future generations. But he was also rather partial to polar bears (which he killed by starvation and drowning), glaciers and polar icecaps (which he melted), and islands in the Indian Ocean and the Pacific (which he drowned).

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