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I don't think some people here quite understand what "destroying the planet" means in this context. No one is claiming that the planet will disappear, or blow up, if we continue to belch toxic emissions. What we are saying is that the planet's environment could (and will if we don't stop it) change to one that is less habitable to us. While a barren Earth would continue to exist, we wouldn't be here to appreciate it - or if we were, we'd be a much reduced species from our current standard of living. So it'd be nice if people would spare us the histrionic "those whacko lefties think the planet itself will cease to exist if I drive an SUV" bullshit, because we all know such a characterization of our views is misleading and purposely pejorative.
I'd also like to see people stop characterizing everything we spend money on while Obama is in office as a tax. That, too, as we all know, is bullshit.
And I know I'm stretching here, but it'd be rather nice if people would stop acting like we think Obama is the Messiah. I didn't call bush "Shrub" when he was fucking the country 6 ways from Sunday, and would appreciate it if your side would actually argue the issues rather than parrot Rush Limbaugh.
We've lived high on the hog energy-wise for over 100 years now. It's high time we start developing and using energies that will not harm the enviornment in the way that the energies we use now do. I'd much rather see my money going to support maintaining the habitability of the planet for humans than to see it get thrown away on actual taxes that go to support war crimes and unjustified destruction of other countries.
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