Back Off, Oh Masters of the Universe (2022-08-15)

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Transcript:
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hello everyone

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i'm going to read

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to you today a piece i wrote for the

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telegraph

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in the uk

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i'm reading it because

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sometimes

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rather than speaking spontaneously it's

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necessary for me to

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craft my words with as much care as i

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can manage

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especially when dealing with things that

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are

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pushing the limits of my

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conceptual ability let's say writing is

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the deepest form of thinking and

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sometimes i need to rely on it and so

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that's why i'm reading it now the next

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issue is how i'm going to read it so

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i've written a number of these

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news pieces let's say commentaries

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recently and people have objected some

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people have objected to my tone

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i'm often dealing with things that i

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would say frighten me to take on to some

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degree they're big issues and they're

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contentious and so a handy source of

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impetus and power

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i mean motive power in such situations

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is to harness a certain degree of

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outrage and anger that also fuels

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my spirit i suppose in some sense when

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i'm writing these articles it would be

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easier in many ways just to sit on the

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couch and and read a stephen king novel

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but

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i have to get up the energy

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and maybe i do that by relying to an

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untenable degree on wrath which is a

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cardinal sin in some regards now it's

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not like there's not things that are

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worth being

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irritable about

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but i thought what i would do today as

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an experiment

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is to attempt to read this in the most

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calm and understanding manner that i can

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despite its

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rather

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pointed

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message

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and so i'm trying to get the tone right

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you know

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and i'm paying attention to the feedback

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i'm getting from

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friend and foe alike let's say and

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modifying my approach as a consequence

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and so this is an attempt to

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modify it yet again in the hopes of

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attaining something better

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and here we go

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deloitte is the largest professional

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service network

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in the world

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headquartered in london

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it is also one of the big four global

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accounting companies offering audit

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consulting risk advisory tax and legal

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services

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to corporate

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clients with a third of a million

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professionals operating on those fronts

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worldwide

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and as the third largest privately owned

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company in the us

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deloitte is a beomoth

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with numerous and far-reaching tentacles

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in short

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it's an entity we should all know about

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not least because such enterprises no

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longer limit themselves to their proper

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bailiwick

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profit centered business strategizing

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say

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but

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consciously or not

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have assumed the role as counselors to

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globalists

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whose policies have sparked considerable

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unrest

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around the world

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if you're seeking the cause of the dutch

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agriculture and fisheries protests the

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canadian trucker convoy

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or before that the rise of the so-called

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yellow jackets in france the farmer

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rebellion in india a few years ago

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the recent catastrophic collapse of sri

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lanka or

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the energy crisis in europe and

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australia

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you can instruct yourself

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by the recent pronouncements from

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deloitte while not directly responsible

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they offer an insight into the elite

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group think

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that has triggered these events into the

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cabell of centralizing globalist

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utopians operating in the media

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corporate and government fronts

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wielding

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a nightmarish vision

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of environmental apocalypse

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outlandish claims

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in may of this year

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deloitte released a clarion call to

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precipitous action trumpeting the

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climate emergency that currently

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confronts us

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called the turning point a global

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summary

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it is a stellar example

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of the kind of thinking characteristic

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of the european union's bureaucratic

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overreach that generated brexit a very

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good decision on the part of the brits

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in my view

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and one that is now threatening the very

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survival

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of that self-same eu

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the report

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opens

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with two claims

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first that the storms wildfires droughts

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downpours and floods around the globe in

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the last 18 months are unique and

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unprecedented

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a dubious claim

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and implicitly that the science is now

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at a point where we can say without

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doubt that experts can and must

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model the entire ecology and economy of

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the planet

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and that we must modify everyone's

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behavior moving forward by hooker by

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crook

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to avoid what would otherwise be the

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most expensive environmental and social

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catastrophe in history

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the deloitte

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models

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posit that climate impacts could affect

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global economic output

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and offer the following figures that

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uncheck climate change will cost us

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178 trillion over the next 50 years

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that's twenty five thousand dollars per

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person

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to put it in human terms

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who dares deny such facts

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stated

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so mathematically

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so precisely

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so scientifically

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let's update mark twain's famous dictum

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there are lies

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damned lies

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statistics

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and computer models

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computer model does not mean

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data

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and even data does not mean fact or real

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world computer model means at best

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hypotheses

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posing

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as mathematical fact no real scientist

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ever says follow the science

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yet this is exactly what bodies such as

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the eu

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consistently pronounce pushing

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for collectivist solutions

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that often and inevitably do more harm

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than good

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solutions in sovereignty what might we

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rely on instead to guide us forward in

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these times of accelerating trouble and

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possibility

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valid authority

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rests in the people

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truly valid structures of authority are

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local

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not centralized for reasons of

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efficiency

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and emergency

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this must not become the generation of

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yet another top-down tower of babel that

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will not solve our problems

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just as similar attempts have failed to

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solve our problems in the past

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ask yourself

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are these deloitte models

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which are supposed to guide all the

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important decisions we make about the

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economic security and opportunity of

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families and the structures of our civil

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societies

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accurate enough

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even to give those who employ them any

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edge whatsoever say in predicting the

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performance of a stock portfolio

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one based on green energy say over the

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upcoming years

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the answer

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is

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no

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how do we know

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because if such accurate models existed

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and were implemented by a company with

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deloitte's resources in reach

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deloitte would soon have

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all the money

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that is never going to happen the global

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economy let alone the environment is

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simply too complex to model

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it is for this reason fundamentally that

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we have and require a free market system

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the free market

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is the best model of the environment

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we can generate

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let me repeat that with a codicil not

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only is the free market the best model

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of the environment we can generate

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it is

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and will remain

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the best model that can in principle

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ever be generated

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with its widely distributed computations

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constituting the totality of the choices

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of seven billion people

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it simply cannot be improved upon

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certainly not by presumptuous power mad

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globalist utopians who think that hiring

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someone mysteriously manipulating a few

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carefully chosen numbers and then

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reading the summarized output means

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genuine contact with the reality of the

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future

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and the generation of knowledge

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unassailable

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on both the ethical and the practical

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front

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the impact

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of delusional thinking

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why is this a problem

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why should you care

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well

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the savior said deloitte

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admit

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that there will be a short-term cost to

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implementing their cure

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which is by the way net zero emissions

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by 2050 an utterly preposterous and

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inexcusable goal

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both

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practically and conceptually

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this by the way is a goal identical to

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that adopted last week by the utterly

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delusional leaders of australia

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who additionally committed that resource

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dependent and productive country

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to a 40

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plus

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decrease by 2005 standards in greenhouse

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gas emission

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within the impossible time frame

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of eight years

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this will devastate australia

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as the framers of such plans with their

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it justifies everything emergency know

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and even somewhat admit to knowing

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here is the confession couched in

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bureaucratic doublespeak from the

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deloitte consultants

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during the initial stages

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the combined cost of the upfront

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investments in decarbonization

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coupled with the already locked in

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damages of climate change would

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temporarily lower economic activity

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compared to the current emissions

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intensive path

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the omniscient planners then attempt to

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justify this with the standard empty

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threats and promises

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the suffering is certain the benefits

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ethereal

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those most exposed to the economic

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damages of unchecked climate change

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would also have the most to gain from

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embracing a low emissions future

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really

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tell that to the african and indian

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populations in the developing world

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lifted from poverty by coal

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and natural gas

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and think

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really think

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about this statement

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existing industries would be

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reconstitute

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as a series of complex interconnected

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emissions-free energy systems

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energy mobility industry manufacturing

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food and land use and negative emissions

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that sounds difficult

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don't you think

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to rebuild everything at once

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and better

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without breaking

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everything

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fixing everything in a few decades

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in a blindly panicked rush

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while demonizing anyone who dares object

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and

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what will it take to do so

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here's the most alarming part

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nothing more than quote

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a coordinated transition

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that will require

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governments along with the financial

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services and technology sectors to

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catalyze facilitate and accelerate

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progress foster information flows across

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systems and align

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individual incentives

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with

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collective goals

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a clearer statement of totalitarian

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inclination

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could hardly

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be penned

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certain outcomes versus predicted

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outcomes

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the one thing the deloitte models

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guarantee

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is that if we do what they recommend

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we will definitely be poorer

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than we would have been otherwise

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for an indefinite but hypothetically

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transitory period

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yet

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any reduction in economic output however

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temporary and necessary

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will be purchased at the cost of the

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lives

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of those who are barely making it now

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period

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have you all noticed that food has

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become much more expensive that shelter

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has become much more expensive that

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energy

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is more expensive

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that many consumer goods are simply

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unavailable

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can you not see

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that this is going to get worse

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if the deloitte style moralists have

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their way

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how much short-term pain

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are you going to be required

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to sustain

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decades worth

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all your life and the life of your

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children

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it's very likely

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for your own benefit

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remember that

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and all this painful privation

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is not only not going to save the planet

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it's going to make it far worse

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i worked for a u.n subcommittee that

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helped prepare the 2012 report to the

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secretary general on sustainable

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development whether or not it was a good

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idea to contribute to such a thing is a

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separate issue

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i do believe at least that the report

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would have been much more harmful than

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it was without the input of the canadian

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contingent

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we scrubbed away several layers of

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globalist utopianism and cold war era

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conceptualization and cynicism

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that was something

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i garnered a key and crucial insight

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from the several years work devoted to

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my contribution

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i learned

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that the fastest and most certain

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pathway forward to the future we all

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want and need

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peaceful prosperous beautiful

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is through

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the economic elevation

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of the absolutely poor

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richer people care

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about

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the environment

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which is after all all that is outside

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the primary and fundamental concern of

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those desperate

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for their next meal

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make

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the poor

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rich

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and the planet will improve or at least

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get out of their way

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while they try to make themselves rich

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make the poor poorer

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and this is the concrete plan remember

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and things will get worse

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perhaps worse beyond imagining

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observe the chaos in sri lanka

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if you need proof

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there are clearly more important

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priorities than costly and ineffective

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emergency climate change reductions

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bjorn lombard's work among others such

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as marion toopey and matt ridley

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has demonstrated that other pressing

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problems could and should take political

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and economic priority from the

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perspective of good done per dollar

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spent

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money could and should be spent for

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example to ensure the current health and

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therefore future productivity and

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environmental stewardship of currently

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poor children in developing countries

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for example

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how about attending to remediation of

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the actual world of pain and deprivation

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of such children

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rather than saving the hypothetical

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world and the hypothetical world of

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future children

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in abstraction

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stirrings of revolt

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citizens are waking up to this

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dutch farmers and fishermen

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are rising up canadian truckers are

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pushing back

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and such protests are spreading and

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increasing in intensity as they

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should

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why

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because

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deloitte consultants

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and like-minded centralists

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are pushing things too far

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it will not produce the results they are

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hypothetically intending

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this agenda justified by emergency

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will instead make everyone poorer

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particularly those who are already poor

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this use of emergency force will instead

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make the lives of the working men upon

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whom we all depend for our daily bread

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and shelter more difficult

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and less rewarding finally

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this use of emergency force

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will also make

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the environment worse

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not better

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why

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if you wreak your temporary economic

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havoc

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to eventually remediate the world those

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whom you sacrifice so casually in the

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attempt

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will descend into chaos

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in that chaos they will then

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by necessity

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19:29

turn their attention to matters of

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immediate survival

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and in a manner that will stress and

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harm the complex ecosystems and

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economies

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that can only be maintained

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with the long-term view

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that prosperity and nothing else

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makes possible

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critics of my view will say we have to

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accept limits to growth

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fine

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accept them

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personally

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abandoned your position of planet

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devouring wealthy privilege

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join an ascetic order

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graze with the cattle

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or if that's too much and it probably is

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then purchase an electric car if you

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want one but no diesel-powered emergency

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backup vehicle or electric power

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generator for you

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buy some stock and tesla that's probably

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the best bet on that front

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but you don't approve of the likes of

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elon musk do you

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stop flying

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stop driving for that matter get on your

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bike instead in your three-piece

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business suit in the winter

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if you dare

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i'll splash you with icy and salty slush

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as i drive by in my

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evil but warm ford bronco suv

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and help you derive the consequent

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delicate pleasure of your own

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narcissistic martyrdom

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save the planet with your own choices

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but quit demanding that the rest of us

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blindly follow your dictats

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quit demonizing and castigating us

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merely because we don't just happily

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cede to you all the extant power

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we're not evil

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just because we don't believe

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that you are omniscient

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we're not evil

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just because we don't want you to assume

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omnipotence and omnipresence too

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there is simply no

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pathway forward

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to the green and equitable utopia

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that necessitates the further

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impoverishment

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of the already poor

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the compulsion of the working class

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or the sacrifice of economic security

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and opportunity on the food energy and

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housing front

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there is simply no pathway forward to

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the global utopia you hypothetically

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value that is dependent on force

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and even if there was what gives you the

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right to enforce your demands

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on other sovereign citizens equal in

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value

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to you

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an alternative solution

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a better way forward would be to

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prioritize the problems that beset all

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of us on this still green functional

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and increasingly abundant planet

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with the requisite focus and attention

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demanded of a true political class

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elected by the people

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capable of and willing to look at

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everything

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trying to fix where necessary trying to

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maintain as much freedom and autonomy as

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possible

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and stop

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simply capitalizing narcissistically on

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the mere appearance

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of action knowledge

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and virtue

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we should obtain true cooperative

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consent

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from those affected

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farmers truckers working-class people

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who have turned an irritated desperation

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to figures such as trump

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and work with them rather than

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forbidding them with your power or

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improving them

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so they will be finally worthy of your

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time and attention

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help replace dirty energy with clean if

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you must but do it on your own dime

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and make sure that the results are cheap

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and plentiful

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if you want to help the poor

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and the planet

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the warning bells are ringing

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listen to them

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before they turn into sirens

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we will not advance without resistance

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through the straits of your enforced

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privation

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we will not allow you to steal and

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destroy the energy that makes our lives

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bearable and that produces our food and

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shelter and housing and the sporadic

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delights of modern life

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just to address your existential terror

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particularly

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when it will fail to do so

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in any case

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we will not allow

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our children

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to be criticized first

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for having the temerity to merely exist

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and then deprived of the prosperous and

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opportunity-rich future we strive so

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hard to prepare for them

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we remain unconvinced that your

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frightened and self-congratulatory

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moralizing and intellectual pretension

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ignorance of the limits of statistics

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and misuse of arithmetic

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we do not believe

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finally and most absolutely

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that your declared emergency and the

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panic you sow because of it

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means

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that you should now be seated all

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necessary authority

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so leave us alone

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you centralizers of power

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you worshipers of gaia

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you sacrificers of the wealth and

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property of others

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you would be planetary saviors

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you machiavellian pretenders and virtue

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signalers

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objecting to power

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all the while you gathered around you

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madly

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leave us alone

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to prosper or not

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as a result of our own choices as a

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result of our own actions

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in the exercise of our own requisite and

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irreducible responsibility

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leave us

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alone

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or reap the whirlwind

25:59

and watch the terrible destruction

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of what you purport to save

26:06

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