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angry and upset and all these things" Emily Barker commented: ""Environment and equality are very important to me, and it’s finding the right perspective to write that from and being respectful of the people in society who are suffering".
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looked at the personal impact in a big way and started realising the scale of this emergency. It’s so hard to compute but for me, writing songs helps me to make sense of things that I can’t process".
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1238:"EMERGENCY SERVICES: EMILY BARKER'S PLOT TO SAVE THE WORLD"
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