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Breitbart Resurrects Another Old Right Wing Canard

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam9/23/2013 3:24:45 am PDT

re: #98 freetoken

Yes, but with quick returns that could be seen.

The Great Wall of China has a very long history, but those who built it did so for near term purposes.

The Hoover Dam could last for a very long time, but it very quickly returned value on its investment.

Humans do engage in long term projects, but again, these projects have near term positive feedback.

Pharaohs and Emperors engaged in their funerary and final resting places decades before they were needed, but with a definite personal goal, and the constructions were also national work projects.

Climate change mitigation is about benefitting people long after we’re dead. That’s a hard sell.

Especially if it requires us to change our way of life, even just a little.