02-01-13, 06:37 PM
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Old enough to know better
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Location: Prince Edward Island
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Originally Posted by Skybird
As I see it, energy-situation will see a short-termed and mid-term ease (thinking of several decades) - but the net effect of our doing in the final end presenting an even higher bill. That's how we humans tick, I cannot help it: short-sighted, not thinking beyond a certain timeframe, caring more for our interest and less for that of others, or our children's children after we are gone. Call it bad, call it good, call it light or shadow - that's what we are like: that is what being human is by design. And maybe that design is not fit enough for ongoing evolutionary survival. Could be, I don't know for sure.
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It's not how we humans tick. It's how the big oil executives tick. It's money in the bank. Put your self in their shoes. And follow the money.
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