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I think it's crazy that there are still so many out there that still just don't get how fucked we are.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his fundraising ability and political power depends upon his not understanding it.
Greed will be the downfall of us all
Two Katrina-level disasters in Florida within the next 12 years.
Doesn't mean they'll recognize them. Maybe they'll just be flukes.
Or alternatively they're paid by lobbyists to protect fossil fuels industry's interests. And since they're sociopaths they don't care if they wreck the earth and drive humanity to extinction as long as they get their proverbial 30 pieces of silver.
They believe that money can solve all their problems