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Hekate

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11. That's the forecast? Well, duh. Al Gore has been on this for, what, 20 years? And in 1971 ...
Sat Nov 24, 2018, 02:51 AM
Nov 2018

...I took a university class called Technology, Ecology, and Man that about knocked my socks off at the time and certainly prepared me for Al Gore. And before that? A 9th-grade Science class that explained that the source of water on our island was an underground lens of fresh water floating on brackish water, and that the fresh water was only replenished by rain trickling down through layers of porous lava and was pretty much limited by the amount of rain and how fast it could drip through rock... which prepared me to understand the concept of finite resources.

This information has been out there and available to the average Joe for a really long time. My response to this report that Trump et al. intend to suppress is is wrong with people?

I am really pissed that it's my grandkids whose lives are going to be short, nasty, and brutish unless there is a fckng miracle. On the one hand, we live in California, which is pretty woke. On the other hand, we live on the coast, so maybe we shoukd invest in motorboats. On yet another hand -- fires. And then there is the fckng GOP in DC.



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