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Environment & Energy

tk2kewl

(18,133 posts) Mon May 2, 2016, 10:11 AM May 2016

We need much more than a political revolution...

Cross post: http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511880451

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We need much more than a political revolution... (Original Post) tk2kewl May 2016 OP

As always, we will take our lesson too late yourpaljoey May 2016 #1

Well said. I despair of most people ever comprehending the true scale of what we have done. GliderGuider May 2016 #2

yourpaljoey

(2,166 posts)

1. As always, we will take our lesson too late

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Mon May 2, 2016, 10:14 AM

May 2016

GliderGuider

(21,088 posts)

2. Well said. I despair of most people ever comprehending the true scale of what we have done.

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Mon May 2, 2016, 10:50 AM

May 2016

We seem to have an existential terror of death that renders most people incapable of even looking at the question, let alone answering it. Denial and distraction are the only games in town. Those few of us who look straight into the eye of the storm might as well be (maybe even are) mutants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terror_management_theory

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