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¹ You can see a video of the Triangle Raging Grannies performing at this strike on Facebook. “The Raging Grannies at the #TriangleClimateStrike.” 350 Triangle, Facebook, 22 September 2019, https://www.facebook.com/350Triangle/videos/738972369884986/. Accessed 3 August 2021.

² Renée was, of course, Descartes first name; it is derived from Renatus, meaning reborn and Feuer, comes from “German: metonymic occupational name for a stoker in a smithy or public baths, or nickname for someone with red hair or a fiery temper, from Middle High German viur ‘fire’. Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name from modern German Feuer ‘fire’” (“Feuer”).

³ “Temperatures soared in tandem, as if to illustrate the point: Europe experienced maybe its hottest temperature on record, while nearly two-thirds of Americans currently live in places under an excessive-heat advisory.”