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Environment & Energy

Brenda

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10. NAFTA and Amazon created this nightmare.

Reply to OKIsItJustMe (Reply #8)

Fri Dec 13, 2024, 07:59 PM

Dec 2024

Americans like to think everything is great because I don't pay much at the gas pump.

I can buy anything from a small screw to a monthly pharmaceutical to a refrigerator right through AMAZON!

I can destroy the best United States government program - US Mail - because I want to save a buck and I'm lazy.

I can buy goods very cheaply because Walmart.

A lot of America is now like a 3rd world country

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Warning of 'Unprecedented Risks,' Scientists Say Mirror Bacteria 'Should Not Be Created' [View all] Brenda Dec 2024 OP

"Geoengineering" is a scare word OKIsItJustMe Dec 2024 #1

Just stop with the patronizing shit Brenda Dec 2024 #3

If we are going to survive this as a species it will be through the application of science OKIsItJustMe Dec 2024 #4

Who ever said we should sit back? Brenda Dec 2024 #6

You must have mistaken me for someone else. OKIsItJustMe Dec 2024 #7

Humans seem hell bent on destroying themselves as quickly as possible this century. Irish_Dem Dec 2024 #2

Nope, not Humans but CERTAIN humans Brenda Dec 2024 #5

The 1% certainly have an effect, but don't let the rest of America off the hook OKIsItJustMe Dec 2024 #8

NAFTA and Amazon created this nightmare. Brenda Dec 2024 #10

In democracies, people are voting in the monsters. Irish_Dem Dec 2024 #9

You really think the 1/3 of this or that is Brenda Dec 2024 #12

What, exactly, would be the point of creating mirror life ? It would be almost indistinguishable from normal life. eppur_se_muova Dec 2024 #11

Interesting how? Brenda Dec 2024 #13

Honestly, mostly in ways over my head. But last I heard, it wasn't yet clear if gravitational attraction ... eppur_se_muova Dec 2024 #14