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Environmental activist Woo Qiyun gravitated towards the book, Cranky Uncle Vs Climate Change: How To Understand And Respond To Climate Science Deniers, at a second-hand bookstore in Chicago.

Environmental activist Woo Qiyun found the book, Cranky Uncle Vs Climate Change: How To Understand And Respond To Climate Science Deniers, at a second-hand bookstore in Chicago.

PHOTO: COURTESY OF WOO QIYUN

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Who: Woo Qiyun, 27, is better known as the environmental activist behind the Instagram account

@theweirdandwild.

She was most recently the official content creator for the Singapore Pavilion at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, which ended on Nov 22.

On various channels including Instagram, LinkedIn and Substack, she creates explainers of technical topics such as weather phenomena, climate finance and energy. She is also not averse to sharing the latest environment-themed video games.

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