• jtrek@startrek.website
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      Unfortunately, most people wouldn’t even understand what that means. And many wouldn’t care. People don’t seem to care about things, even as those things chew them up.

      Getting peers on board is probably the way to go.

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        The greed and narcissism of modern consumerist society has given everyone a dog-eat-dog worldview where working together as a species to solve problems, and making minor sacrifices, is “communism”. Moral and ethical bankruptcy is “freedom”.

        Why plant a tree for future generations when you believe it won’t survive the climate in 50 years, or it will be felled to generate value for shareholders?