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harmonicon

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14. No, they really aren't.

Reply to cantbeserious (Reply #12)

Mon May 6, 2013, 07:55 AM

May 2013

The way you and someone who denies global warming live your lives are basically identical. Even if you try to make them as different as possible, the larger economic/political forces at work over which individual choices have little to no impact are going to dwarf those differences by comparison.

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