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MisterP

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17. presumably the idea is to present everyone with 5 options, all disastrous
Sat Jan 18, 2014, 04:21 PM
Jan 2014

and say "pick 4"

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The methane bomb up in the Arctic will have us not even remembering this shit in 50 years. Systematic Chaos Jan 2014 #1
you do grasp that the TPP could well have a major negative environmental impact, right? cali Jan 2014 #2
The TPP won't do anything we're not already doing just fine without it. Systematic Chaos Jan 2014 #4
lol. I don't need to go to the Environmental forum to know something I do over 20 years ago. cali Jan 2014 #5
Corporations hastening us? Really? Almost everything they DO hastens us by default. Systematic Chaos Jan 2014 #6
TPP is merely the realization of inaction on climate change. joshcryer Jan 2014 #8
Cali, that's one of the problems with the Environment/Energy forum bananas Jan 2014 #20
Ding, ding, we have a winner. joshcryer Jan 2014 #7
The MIC Spigot is pretty important...but it's now buy-partisan solarhydrocan Jan 2014 #3
We've got to stop TPP newfie11 Jan 2014 #9
Hear! Hear! ReRe Jan 2014 #13
TPP made a swing voter out of me that will likely boycott November. I voted yes. livingwagenow Jan 2014 #10
yes. nt xchrom Jan 2014 #11
We certainly need an international agreement that that protects the evironment and labor rights. pampango Jan 2014 #12
Bill Clinton tried that with NAFTA. The E&L "protections" were deemed unenforceable. livingwagenow Jan 2014 #15
My point was not that past efforts on the environment and labor rights have been successful, pampango Jan 2014 #16
I believe it is! ReRe Jan 2014 #14
presumably the idea is to present everyone with 5 options, all disastrous MisterP Jan 2014 #17
I think it's the most important and will have reversible results if it's not stopped. B Calm Jan 2014 #18
It's another historic mistake on par with NAFTA and the Iraq war. pa28 Jan 2014 #19
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