Too bad the REAL cliff is off the radar

[G_j]

and to anyone actually paying attention, that is GLOBAL WARMING.

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1. shh, don't bother us about "coastlines flooding" and all that! we're busy adding shareholder value!

[G_j]

2. I find myself pondering how ignorant

we will look in retrospect.

[PETRUS]

3. Yep

People forget that money represents the value in things like natural resources, effort, and intelligence, but has no worth on its own. We are so focused on the financial balance sheet and driven by the logic of classical economics that we frequently choose courses of action that destroy physical and human capital. Pissing away too much of the "principal" of our natural resources "account" is the real debt we'll be unable to repay.

[G_j]

4. Well said

and one thing about reality, it doesn't go away when you close your eyes.