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cprise

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8. You already jumped the shark with your overpopulation estimate
Sun Mar 24, 2013, 08:55 PM
Mar 2013

...and your reductionist misapplication of the laws of thermodynamics.

But this is just inane; Like pop songs and Hollywood movies that keep telling people to live in the moment. The mentality is a big reason why we're in this mess, because America's working class are too apt to drop their grievances as they are instructed to indulge instead. They're already doing what you counsel by the millions, and drowning the resulting helplessness in religious fervor, engrossing entertainments and anti-psychotic medications.

The climate crisis is an ultimate expression of a very one-sided class war. Too many of the upper class assume its simply a matter of letting markets take their course where the wealth disparity ensures they can always buy into the environmental high-ground and stay "dry", while the poor are pushed to the margins of what is considered safe and can drown. IMO its a very nasty delusion to harbor, filled with determined indifference and nasty intentions.

Do not go quietly into that good night, SIR.

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