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Originally Posted by Janey
conserve, adapt, plan and understand that climate patterns has never been stable.
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But have such large systems (our own) ever before been dependent on stable climate patterns? Is it time to swing some public conservation funds toward adaptation? Food production, changing shorelines, etc. As individuals we can work toward survival, but that will leave our societies like so much swiss cheese.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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