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Icanthinkformyself

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10. The irony of climate change

Reply to Tanuki (Original post)

Tue Nov 29, 2022, 10:16 AM

Nov 2022

The shoreline is disappearing under water while the rivers dry up. I fear we.ve waited too late. But, being humans, that's what we do. We kick cans down the road waiting for the next generation to make up for our failures. As a boomer, I apologize to the next generations. We screwed the pooch as they say.

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