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Thanks for taking questions! Given the inability of national governments or intergovernmental organizations to seriously address climate change, and, given rising inequality within and across countries, do you think your children's lives will be more difficult than your own? What about your grandchildren?

Thank you, Prof Gallagher! Very thoughtful.

You note that China is a world leader in combating climate change, but it is also a world leader in setting up detention and forced labor camps for minority Uighurs, at a scale that is horrifying. See https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/16/world/asia/xinjiang-china-forced-labor-camps-uighurs.html and https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/08/world/asia/china-uighur-muslim-detention-camp.html?module=inline for estimates ranging from several hundred thousand to one million people detained.

As a public intellectual and policy professional, how do you navigate the tension between support for one policy and protesting another? In an age of populism and autocracy, what tools do you and other policy professionals possess for combatting the forced labor of thousands of innocent people?