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Re:Massachusetts Sues Exxon over Climate Change, Accusing th... by pipermerriam on Sunday October 27, 2019 @12:56PM (#21370883)
I agree with this sentiment. I've struggled to see a path towards real change that doesn't involve us all getting out our pitchforks.
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Re:Massachusetts Sues Exxon over Climate Change, Accusing th... by blotter_paper on Sunday October 27, 2019 @01:11PM (#21370966)
Proposal: ignore their broken system and try to do something else entirely at the edge of the frontier, where such things are (sometimes) allowed.

β€œIn order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.” --Buckminster Fuller

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Re:Massachusetts Sues Exxon over Climate Change, Accusing th... by beerandt on Sunday October 27, 2019 @02:41PM (#21371599)
If we're still allowed to have pitchforks by then.
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Re:Massachusetts Sues Exxon over Climate Change, Accusing th... by blotter_paper on Sunday October 27, 2019 @03:00PM (#21371692)
Cue school pitchforking.
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Re:Massachusetts Sues Exxon over Climate Change, Accusing th... by cmendel on Sunday October 27, 2019 @02:07PM (#21371373)
Honestly? Maybe we need to call a constitutional convention.
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