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Get ready for more extinctions: (Original Post)
applegrove
Nov 2019
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Ferrets are Cool
(21,107 posts)1. It makes me so farking sad/mad, but it is ONLY going to get worse. nt
applegrove
(118,696 posts)2. I could not even look at the video of the Koala. Will i start hiding from the news when humans
are in trouble? I think that is Big Oil's big plan.... that we either hide or get immune to what they are doing to the world 30 years after they knew.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,107 posts)3. I can't watch it either. Too much of an empath.
I suppose the only thing we can do is continue to try to elect people who actually care enough to enact legislation that will change things. In America, it is certainly depressing that so many seem not to care at all.
applegrove
(118,696 posts)4. Yes. They want to pump even more. Bet you those guys who drive trucks with
dirty black fuel coming out of the exhaust would not get far today. The people would stop em. I just hope climate peaks as an issue this fall coming up. It did during canada's election.
appalachiablue
(41,146 posts)5. Woman rescues koala from bushfire in New South Wales
wendyb-NC
(3,328 posts)6. This rips my heart out.
Poor innocent creatures. What a tragedy.