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bronxiteforever

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6. We battle against our DNA when thinking about climate change

Reply to Duppers (Reply #1)

Thu Aug 15, 2019, 07:40 PM

Aug 2019

Our poor monkey brains seem unable to care about a world only a decade or two out in the future. You are so correct- our own mortality ,as unpleasant sounding as it is, is nothing compared to letting our future families inherit a wasteland we helped create.

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'The Sea Will Get as Hot as a Jacuzzi': What Life in Israel Will Be Like in 2100 [View all] bronxiteforever Aug 2019 OP

Tell it like it is. Duppers Aug 2019 #1

We battle against our DNA when thinking about climate change bronxiteforever Aug 2019 #6

bronxiteforever, consider posting this in GD? Duppers Aug 2019 #2

Only when man is gone Seedersandleechers Aug 2019 #3

We are all God's children The_jackalope Aug 2019 #4

+1 bronxiteforever Aug 2019 #5