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I will never forget a conversation I had with a long time friend about climate change. He had all the lies that we've all heard memorized. I cared about this person quite a bit, so I spent an entire weekend in the back country debunking every single lie he had ever heard.
I completely upended his entire world view. Laid it bare. I was doing this because I cared about him and respected him as a human being. At the end of it, he basically asked me so what are we supposed to do. I told him point blank, if we don't transition off fossil fuels as
rapidly as possible. It will doom my children,your children & are eventual grandchildren to a dystopic future the likes of which you can't even imagine. I could see the pain on his face because he knows I'm right. I thought I had made real progress, I was happy.
After the trip was over we went home and he never spoke to me again. That was maybe 15 years ago. On other social media sites, I see that he is still posting the same old rubbish. He knows it's a lie. I proved it beyond any doubt. He wants to believe the lie.
He is captured by it exactly as Carl Sagan had predicted. 
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