Two Major Concerns for the Human Race


	Two Major Concerns for the Human Race

laceym

4-9-2007 10:00 AM

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global warming, ethics, politics

laceym says:

This clip is taken from the comments of a blog post titled Too Much of a Good Thing

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4-12-2007 4:11 AM

mugofcoffee

This is really too much of a good thing!

4-15-2007 10:04 AM

tabsey

Follows a logic doesn't it?
It also follows the trend started after WW2.
Politicians who thought "infrastructure" was something heard on Flash Gordon. Same as those we have now, except they're having to start the payments.

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