Sometimes, sometimes you just feel like you're in the presence of Pure Intellect, intellect of a most profound and palpable presence. I felt that way, reading and listening to Malcolm X, Edward Snowden and most recently, this sixteen year old girl, Greta Thunberg. And what separates the absolute brilliance of these individuals from geniuses like an Einstein or Chomsky is that their message, their wisdom is always imparted and tempered with the appropriate amount of emotion and empathy- however subdued, however impassioned....
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And as I've long suspected, and Davis Wallace Wells has quite convincingly confirmed, climate scientists, if anything, have actually sugar coated the horrific speed and consequences of climate change on our planet in the vain hope that populations worldwide will convincingly take heed and react accordingly- instead of falling into the complete denial and complacency so many have instead chosen. Severe climate change is already too late to avoid, it is now simply a question of how many more people we will cause to die in the not very distant future- simply by our continued inaction right now.
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