The People's Line

The People's Line

We might always be this stupid

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Carl Beijer
Mar 17, 2015
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The complete inability of our society to deal with obvious consequences of our actions is what has doomed it. This society will not survive. The questions are only “How many people will it kill going down?” and “What will the next society look like in the ashes of a world left to us by this one?”

Whatever it looks like, it will be very different.

– Ian We…

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