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ancianita

(36,060 posts)
2. The Green New Deal resolution is not a manhattan project, not even a bill. But Americans should
Sat Aug 24, 2019, 11:41 AM
Aug 2019

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know about it. Lord knows most haven't even heard about it.

Some sacrifice for grandchildren has always been accepted by generations.

The problem with this kind of sacrifice is broad-based and harder to imagine, and something progressives have already planned to ameliorate.

Retrograde critics' fears amount to this:

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The Wielding Truth

(11,415 posts)
3. My point for years. Would it be so bad to clean up our environment? If the world is un inhabitable we
Sat Aug 24, 2019, 01:16 PM
Aug 2019

can't live.

ancianita

(36,060 posts)
4. Right. It's not like there aren't jobs and improved economies, thereby, with such a cleanup.
Sat Aug 24, 2019, 01:23 PM
Aug 2019

It's the believers bought by capitalists -- who want their End Story apocalypse to come about, replete with an antichrist, bear from the East and all the other symbolism -- that will "thin the herd" and kill off most of humanity, and make sure this green new deal never sees the light of day.

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