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28. Abuse is what pro-fossil fuel posters do, it's their schtick...

Fri Jul 11, 2025, 06:03 AM

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...I suspect they are attempting to intimidate reasonable thinkers away from publicly challenging their pro-fossil fuel claims that any clean energy source other than nuclear are physical impossibilities, despite the obvious fact that clean energy technologies of ALL kinds are our only hope to stop CO2 emissions.

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