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Lorien

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1. Amazing how a "terrorist" shooting will motivate the whole world

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Sat Feb 6, 2016, 11:19 AM

Feb 2016

to take action against a relatively small group of people, but climate change, which has the potential to destroy much of life on earth in our lifetimes, gets a shrug and a quick change of topics.

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January 2016 Atmospheric CO2 Content 402.52; January 2015 399.96; January 2014 397.81 [View all] hatrack Feb 2016 OP

Amazing how a "terrorist" shooting will motivate the whole world Lorien Feb 2016 #1

Some things are too hard. LiberalArkie Feb 2016 #2

Well, sure, if there were giant *short term* profits to be made Lorien Feb 2016 #3

Terrorists don't really affect our abilty to be lazy consumers. Gregorian Feb 2016 #6

Today's reading: 405.83... GliderGuider Feb 2016 #4

Poisoning our own nest. Brilliant. Gregorian Feb 2016 #5

It's like all the renewables we've installed in the past 20 years has had no effect at all NickB79 Feb 2016 #7