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Nihil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-24-09 05:32 AM
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14. Thank you. "Simplistic" or not, it is completely accurate.
> We know what would happen if we quit generating carbon.
> The planet would get better, but our social and economic
> arrangements would sustain a huge hit.
> ...
> We know what we need to do, but we don't want to pay the price.
> We rationalize. We dance around the issue.
> ...
> We're fooling ourselves because we can't bear the thought of doing
> what we need to do.

:toast: (though they should really be :-( rather than :-) drinking)
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