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California wildfires emitted as much carbon dioxide as a year's worth of electricity. Federal data shows blazes released 68 million tons of greenhouse gases. Question, shall we ban the use of plastic straws - or develop better forest management?
Here's the story:
washingtontimes.com/news/2018/nov/…
👍 Many of them don't believe in God, but will call this "An act of God."
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Jack Peterson
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The Cold Within

Six men trapped by happenstance
In bleak and bitter cold.
Each one possessed a stick of wood
Or so the story’s told.

Their dying fire in need of logs
The first man held his back.
For on the faces around the fire
He noticed one was black.
The rich man just sat back and thought
Of the wealth he had in store
And how to keep what he had earned
From the lazy poor.

The black man’s face spoke revenge
As the fire passed from his sight.
For all he saw in his stick of wood
Was a chance to spite the white.
The next man looking across the way
Saw one not of his church
And couldn’t bring himself to give
The fire his stick of birch.

The third one sat in tattered clothes.
He gave his coat a hitch.
Why should his log be put to use
To warm the idle rich?
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