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Reply #24: No, I do. Depends on the resource. Define "problem". Wholesale, no. Yes, unjust wars are a problem. [View All]

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Warren DeMontague Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-20-10 12:05 AM
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24. No, I do. Depends on the resource. Define "problem". Wholesale, no. Yes, unjust wars are a problem.
Even just wars are a problem, particularly if you're in the line of fire.

However, no, I don't agree that climate change means "WUR DOOMED!!!!1111", that Paris and New York are going to disappear unless we all move into burlap yurts, or that tired, half-assed dorm room che poster anti-corporate gibberish is any kind of a grown-up response to a real problem; a real problem that, yes, is going to require our best thinking and adaptability (including humanity's favorite pastime, new technology) but isn't going to be solved by people who consider it just another excuse to toss tired old dialectical materialist cliches at the wall to see if, this time, finally they will stick.

Corporations are not going away, and Chris Hedges has proven himself (with his bi-weekly anti-Obama screeds, among other things) to be something of a doofus. I have no doubt that when Ralph Nader finally crawls back out of whatever hole he's been hiding in, (still flush with cash donated to him by conservative Republicans in 2004) Hedges will be one of the first on board the train.
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