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Environment & Energy

Random Boomer

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2. No one has ever cared

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Wed Nov 10, 2021, 03:07 PM

Nov 2021

Humans are tribal, and their concern is directed toward the immediate circle of people around them; that's just the way we're built. Those of us who identify at a global level with the fate of the entire planet, we're the anomalies, the weird individuals who are screaming into the wind.

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