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Imagine you are giving a short speech to one of the top plastic polluters. You want to persuade them to use less plastic and make changes more quickly. Use some of the statistics from the article ...

Study a century of parliamentary speeches (excluding interjections of under 100 words) and a pattern emerges. Chart: The Economist In 1938 the average speech was almost 1,000 words long.