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When it comes to planet-wide crisis no wonder so many people’s mental model being so badly mistaken. Lack of basics.
Where is Pakistan? What's their problem with India?
Where is Ukraine? What's their problem with Russia?
When it comes to planet-wide crisis no wonder so many people’s mental model being so badly mistaken. Lack of basics.
Where is Pakistan? What's their problem with India?
Where is Ukraine? What's their problem with Russia?
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Then there's "globalization". Pollution reduction. Workplace safety. Bank fraud. Coal ashes being radioactive. Money laundering. Why reducing the number of births leads to better lives for women and higher income.
General state of ignorance.
Then there's "globalization". Pollution reduction. Workplace safety. Bank fraud. Coal ashes being radioactive. Money laundering. Why reducing the number of births leads to better lives for women and higher income.
General state of ignorance.
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They could hardly be blamed given how reactionary their elders had been in providing a broader education to 'em as children.
But when it came to 'current events', less excusable.
They could hardly be blamed given how reactionary their elders had been in providing a broader education to 'em as children.
But when it came to 'current events', less excusable.
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Vax against Covid should never have been a matter of shouting clergy or religious blindness. No it is science. It is health care. It is "pro-life".
Vax against Covid should never have been a matter of shouting clergy or religious blindness. No it is science. It is health care. It is "pro-life".
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Anything associated with #CCSS should have, within a year or so, become past the point of widespread denial.
Sadly, no. Which was why America not only lagged behind but was falling ever further back of the pack, moving far too slowly.
Anything associated with #CCSS should have, within a year or so, become past the point of widespread denial.
Sadly, no. Which was why America not only lagged behind but was falling ever further back of the pack, moving far too slowly.
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Really making adaptations was never easy, but without adapting, there would only be ever worse waves of changes, each tougher to endure.
Really making adaptations was never easy, but without adapting, there would only be ever worse waves of changes, each tougher to endure.
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Because the 'wrong future' is already here, and in this dystopian version of our collective disaster will have ever more changes, done ever faster and ever harder to catch up to.
Because the 'wrong future' is already here, and in this dystopian version of our collective disaster will have ever more changes, done ever faster and ever harder to catch up to.
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Because for much of America, they did not try to keep up previously.
Bad today (2020s). Worse tomorrow (2040s). And a horror for grandchildren as yet unborn (2060s).
Because for much of America, they did not try to keep up previously.
Bad today (2020s). Worse tomorrow (2040s). And a horror for grandchildren as yet unborn (2060s).
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In the 1970s "Soylent Green" was only supposed to be a movie for chills 'n thrills. Not a marketing campaign for affordable food in the 2060s.
In the 1970s "Soylent Green" was only supposed to be a movie for chills 'n thrills. Not a marketing campaign for affordable food in the 2060s.
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