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hunter

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6. 90% of our economy as it now exists needs to be put down with extreme prejudice.
Wed Aug 22, 2012, 02:10 PM
Aug 2012

If we don't do the job ourselves in a rational, humane way, nature is going to do it the old-fashioned way with lots of death, pain, and suffering.

There a plenty of ways we might build a more technically advanced, less resource intensive society that doesn't leave anybody behind, but we're not going in that direction as the rich get richer and the poor are thrown off the bus.


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