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RiverLover

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4. Sure. Our small E&E group here asks the same Q basically every day. Who better to understand,
Mon May 25, 2015, 08:44 PM
May 2015

other than Climate Scientists themselves?

Meanwhile we are spending trillion$ on defense, that could be going towards alternative fuels, ecological education, saving the planet. And instead we have wars for oil, and jobs sent overseas to produce goods made by virtual slaves and shipped back to US using fossil fuels. We're about to pass a trade bill which will increase the export of natural gas & so US production of natural gas through fracking will expand when it needs to contract, harming both our precious water supply & increasing C02 emissions. More pipelines, more destroyed trees & at risk waterways...

Honestly, I wish Claude could bottle up that optimism of his & sell it to us. I'm in absolute awe of his positivity.

The movie looks to be hauntingly beautiful in its tragic tale. I hope to see it. Though I'm sure I'll be crying through much of it.

(yes, I'm female )

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