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raouldukelives

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5. It didn't have to be this way. People have been telling us for years.

Mon May 7, 2012, 02:31 PM

May 2012

Nobody wanted to listen. Nobody that cared enough not to profit from the proceeds of pollution over the sanctity of life on earth that is. Fighting tooth & nail against any kind of renewable energy sources or efforts to stop deforestation. So here we are. Facing the facts dead in the face and people still choose to support the stock market & corporations over wildlife, oceans & forests.

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