If only they had known
The human race is in the position the dinosaur race was in some 25 years before the impact of the Chicxulub meteor.
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politics
World view
There is a real world described by science; and then there are many imaginary worlds, described by religion, and politics, and astrology, and the media, and psychics, and economists, and ideology, and common sense.
Get a life
Hard to take seriously an imaginary being who wants his (yes his) followers to be primarily concerned with their dead epidermal cells: their colour, their arrangement, who can see tnem, and which bits can be rubbed together by which people.
System failure
Capitalism is the best system for making a small number of people very rich. Slavery is the second best.
Value of nothing
Politicians and journalists always demand to know, and then reject, the cost of measures to conserve the environment. But neither ever ask the cost of war.
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends, with the bang of a million trees exploding, with the whimper of a thousand koalas dying, and unbreathable smoke, and blowing dust, and drying earth, and drying rivers, and a howling wind, and a bloody Sun, and a feeling of utter helplessness.
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Destroying the village.
Whodathought? (Not me). That the same people who damaged the world by flooding it with carbon dioxide, now say they can solve the problem by flooding it with radioactivity?
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General Donald J. Trump
Viewed from afar, in ignorance, really, and with no dog in the hunt, no skin in the game, no horse in the race, it seems to me that America has recently refought her Civil War, but this time the South won.
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Believe it or not
Convince someone to believe in an imaginary creature who lives in the sky and takes an interest in the outcome of football games and the purchase of lottery tickets and the number of survivors in airplane crashes, and you can get them to believe in anything.