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madville

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15. Country is already bankrupt

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Fri Jun 20, 2025, 11:31 AM

Jun 20

Really, what’s a few more trillion? It’ll get passed on to everyone as inflation like usual.

This country has been financially and morally bankrupt for the last decade or three, don’t see it getting fixed, just have to adapt to the slow boil.

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Climate Change Will Bankrupt the Country [View all] Passages Jun 20 OP

Oh no! If only someone had tried to warn us, using the tools of science to . . . oh, wait . . . hatrack Jun 20 #1

Home insurance will be a luxury item bucolic_frolic Jun 20 #2

One more Andrew, one more Michael, and that'll be it for private property insurance in Florida hatrack Jun 20 #3

That is the fear, in a nutshell. Passages Jun 20 #5

I see ... littlemissmartypants Jun 20 #4

Trump won't like that. Turbineguy Jun 20 #6

This Is A Prime Example modrepub Jun 20 #7

I don't think Trump or Republicans plan to spend any money whatsoever... ananda Jun 20 #8

You know who should go bankrupt? Kid Berwyn Jun 20 #9

100%!!! Passages Jun 20 #10

Time for govt. to buy up stuff, these cost numbers they toss out, they need HEAVY AF SCRUTINY. Brainfodder Jun 20 #11

They have known for a long time Ibapah Jun 20 #12

All this in my lifetime. Now I weep as I imagine bronxiteforever Jun 20 #13

catastrophic climate change is here et tu Jun 20 #14

Country is already bankrupt madville Jun 20 #15

Exxon knew all about this in 1977. In something like 1850 in Germany experiments showed the CO 2 in a Botany Jun 20 #16

Knowledge of the thermodynamic properties of CO2 predates the Civil War . . . . hatrack Jun 20 #18

About 2 miles from where I am sitting right now in Columbus, Ohio is Ohio State University's Institute of Botany Jun 20 #19

Yep. Lonnie Thompson is Da Man! hatrack Jun 20 #21

On this front, Change is stiff competition with the Crime Syndicate operating out of the Oval Office msfiddlestix Jun 20 #17

It has been estimated the every dollar invested in the Weather Bureau ... dedl67 Jun 20 #20