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Zorra

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7. "Your people are driven by a terrible sense of deficiency...

Reply to TshaiRedhair (Original post)

Mon Nov 10, 2014, 02:36 PM

Nov 2014

...When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money." ~ Alanis Obomsawin

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Mother Earth has been abused [View all] TshaiRedhair Nov 2014 OP

to much CO2 means we will have happy plants! bottled oxygen for sale! Sunlei Nov 2014 #1

I don't see that "Mother Earth" has been abused, but rather, ladjf Nov 2014 #2

Nature does not retaliate seveneyes Nov 2014 #3

Are you making some kind of actual point my good man/woman? TshaiRedhair Nov 2014 #5

"Retaliation" requires moral consciousness. nt Nuclear Unicorn Nov 2014 #4

You are just plain real wrong my good man/woman. TshaiRedhair Nov 2014 #6

Retaliation implies will Bonx Nov 2014 #12

"To return like for like, especially evil for evil." Nuclear Unicorn Nov 2014 #16

"bespeaks"? lol TshaiRedhair Nov 2014 #18

Do you have an actual point of rebuttal? nt Nuclear Unicorn Nov 2014 #19

Do you somehow know for a fact that our planet has no moral consciousness? Zorra Nov 2014 #10

Yes. Bonx Nov 2014 #13

Great! Zorra Nov 2014 #14

Perhaps you should address the OP, consider the response to my earlier post. Nuclear Unicorn Nov 2014 #17

"Your people are driven by a terrible sense of deficiency... Zorra Nov 2014 #7

Beautiful TshaiRedhair Nov 2014 #8

Thank you for your quote, and your OP. Zorra Nov 2014 #9

What do you suggest? /nt topological Nov 2014 #11

Stop all fracking immediately, for starters. nt Zorra Nov 2014 #15