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CRH

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1. Good article, ...
Tue Jul 23, 2013, 07:26 AM
Jul 2013
In part too the challenge of the global warming crisis represents something the Left has never before faced—an injustice perpetrated not by one class or race or gender or majority on another but of one generation—ours—on all the generations of both humans and other species yet unborn.

The problem with the Left, of which I once considered a hope of our salvation, is the Left never could grasp their own over consumption and lifestyle was a part of the problem, their green solutions an attempt to continue status quo, their high tech visions of the future another effort preserve their comfort.

Synergy and sustainability require sacrifice and a fundamental realignment of manifest human illusions of superiority and grandeur.

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