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Bleacher Creature

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6. Yep.

Reply to handmade34 (Reply #4)

Sat Feb 16, 2019, 11:10 PM

Feb 2019

To me, this was the most depressing sentence in the op-Ed:

But a majority of Americans were unwilling to spend even $10 a month to address global warming; most drew the line at $1 a month, according to a poll conducted the previous month.

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