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ljm2002

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5. And our leaders continue to fiddle...
Mon Nov 26, 2012, 12:30 AM
Nov 2012

...while the planet continues to burn.

We need global action at the people-to-people level. We need to bypass the idiot elites and figure out for ourselves how we can modify our lifestyles NOW. We need to figure out clean energy solutions that will work in developing countries too. We need to understand that the whole paradigm must change and rapidly.

The idiot elites will never figure anything out in time, because, as Upton Sinclair once remarked, It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

Well this is far beyond salaries, this is survival for us and for the planet. Okay, okay, technically the planet will survive -- if by "survive" you mean become a nearly uninhabitable hell-hole instead of the verdant and wonderful cradle of life that we have all been privileged to inhabit.

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