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Environment & Energy

GliderGuider

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14. The big question is, whose children do we think about?

Reply to Bigmack (Reply #8)

Tue Sep 23, 2014, 12:55 PM

Sep 2014

To our children go the benefits, to others' children go the costs - if at all possible It's in our genes.

We are simply not genetically equipped to deal with ANY of the problems we're facing right now. Sux rox, but there it is.

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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