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Environment & Energy

Archaic

(273 posts)

8. The planet is going to be fine.

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Thu May 30, 2013, 11:32 PM

May 2013

The folks on it are just going to have a progressively worse existence. And since most of the people affected first will be poor and not anywhere near the rich folks, bonus!

If we don't kill off every last animal and plant first, that stuff will thrive when we're gone.

This guy is a rich schmuck, whose only job is to make other rich schmucks richer.

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