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merrily

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4. The new meme: Unless other countries participate, nothing we do will

Mon Sep 22, 2014, 07:33 AM

Sep 2014

make a difference. It will only deprive Americans.

While there is truth in that, emerging nations are fed up enough with what the US did to the planet as it is. Someone has to start somewhere. Saying a nation of 350 million people, give or take, can make no difference at all is not believable.

Before that, the meme was that there was climate change, but it was a cycle of nature.

Before that, the meme was that it was not happening at all.

So, we've made some progress as to what they will admit (at least the ones trying to sound halfway rational). Too bad progress has been too long in coming and nowhere near enough.

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Borowitz: Largest Climate-Change March in History Unlikely to Convince Idiots [View all] GliderGuider Sep 2014 OP

need real proof fxstc Sep 2014 #1

The issue is not proof. GliderGuider Sep 2014 #3

I agree fxstc Sep 2014 #5

Welcome to Du, in case you didn't know, Borowitz in the OP is satirist. The piece is satire. uppityperson Sep 2014 #11

Don't waste your time uppity JustAnotherGen Sep 2014 #13

I think if the United States alone could fix the problem yeoman6987 Sep 2014 #6

A common response pscot Sep 2014 #9

I don't argue that point at all yeoman6987 Sep 2014 #10

Willful ignorance rules Congress pscot Sep 2014 #12

I love good satire Gothmog Sep 2014 #2

The new meme: Unless other countries participate, nothing we do will merrily Sep 2014 #4

Yes, those other nations, brutally forcing us to pay 1/2 to 1/4 avg world fuel prices! hatrack Sep 2014 #7

"THINK" of the children? Bigmack Sep 2014 #8

The big question is, whose children do we think about? GliderGuider Sep 2014 #14