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smallcat88

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2. We are already past the point of no return

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Mon Jun 16, 2014, 02:48 PM

Jun 2014

This is going to be with us for centuries. Assuming our species is around that long. The generations of the 20th and early 21st century will go down in the history books as those who had the scientific information to know what was happening, do something about it and then -

Did nothing. We have yet another definition for too stupid for words.

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