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Old 01-05-2013, 01:27 AM   #342 (permalink)
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Human caused climate change is the single most challenging thing that our species has ever faced - and since it is of our making, the inverse is also possible. We are causing the current changes to the climate, so we can stop causing it, too.
We'd probably be well on the way to solving it, if it weren't for some of our other doings. We've gone from simple usury to fractional reserve banking to derivatives markets.

Bucky was always grumbling about architects and bankers.