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ramapo

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14. So many reasons....
Sat Jun 15, 2024, 09:16 AM
Jun 2024

The first is that people have to hear about in order to listen. The media is focused on everything else; Trumps latest schtick, politicians crazy rants, local sports, national sports, TV, movies, the price of chicken, vacation ideas, concerts, and on and on. How many hours were devoted to Hunter Biden, his fate means nothing to us.

Second people for the most part don't see anything amiss. The sun comes up, it rains, it doesn't rain, the beach vacation is just fine, the park looks nice. Why worry. A little bit like the frog in water brought to a boil.

There has been about 45 years of climate messaging ranging from we're all going to die to it's all bullshit. People tune out.

Practically nobody thinks about what might happen in ten months much less ten or a hundred years. Too bad grandkids if it doesn't work out.

We all live on a sword's edge of nuclear war. That's never mentioned.

Ignorance is bliss.

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