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You speak about human frailties against the backdrop of opposing politics. Humans are temporary creatures though we are increasingly long-lived.
For this reason we shouldn't be engaging in politics, rather we should take a stand on something and try to bury the appropriate people under an avalanche of paper, make them notice us.
If your concern is the environment then sub-divide that down to a specific thing and start your seige. My concern is for the need of the mentally-ill in the areas of training/employment and housing.
posted by
1jefferson3Walnut
on March 16, 2013 at 6:59 AM
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I dont have an answer for this one
posted by
Lanetay
on December 16, 2012 at 8:16 AM
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Straightforward
I have all I can manage to determine how to voice justice in the politics of my own country I leave that to you residents. You would have a much better sense of what is just, acceptable and what is not.
posted by
Justi
on December 14, 2012 at 8:31 PM
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Green energy will come into being in its own time. Right now the wind must blow, or the sun must shine or there is no juice. We need a dependable carbon based energy source in the meantime. Recent discoveries show that we have more recoverable oil in the continental US than they do in the Middle East and we should extract it in an environmentally friendly way. Any one who cannot see this has never stood on a freeway overpass at rush hour and then multiplied that with all the freeways in the US. And yes, electric cars mean coal fired power plants. Right now the answer is oil.
posted by
UtahJay
on December 12, 2012 at 1:01 AM
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Straightforward
JFair economics and not environmentalism but conservation loves. BC-A, Bill’s R®st
posted by
BC-A
on December 12, 2012 at 1:00 AM
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Extreme views on both sides confuse me so. I like a bit of both, more like
you are suggesting.
posted by
Kabu
on December 11, 2012 at 4:14 PM
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It must be coincidental that red and green are actually opposite colors on the color wheel ( better known as complimentary colors). Is the metaphore still in tact? 
posted by
JimmyA
on December 11, 2012 at 2:18 PM
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They do go hand in hand.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on December 11, 2012 at 9:24 AM
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I suppose once we were all equal and then some became more equal than others. Has any generation been unduly concerned about the next other than through blood. 
posted by
C_C_T
on December 11, 2012 at 8:42 AM
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Straightforward
I think the world has gone mad over environmental rights, especially when we see the weapons of war everywhere and Syria bringing out chemical weapons now.
posted by
WileyJohn
on December 11, 2012 at 6:50 AM
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I agree, SF
Going green, staying green produces and maintains employment. Too, we all are human in our frailties and need a healthier environment.
posted by
Katray2
on December 11, 2012 at 6:21 AM
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To be honest I don't understand why politics are so divisive, not only do the working class need a healthy environment to function well but the wealthy need a healthy and complicit working class to be able to make the most money (after all who buys the stuff to make rich people rich?). I think all the parties are parts of a cloth and they don't seem to realise that all things need to do well for any one of them to succeed in the long term.
posted by
lionreign
on December 11, 2012 at 3:13 AM
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