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Did you ever see the Jim Henson TV series Dinosaurs? It was mostly dismissed at the time as a silly sitcom and a Simpsons ripoff, but the whole thing had a major ecological message: We are destroying ourselves with our own foolishness due to corporate greed and indifference to what was happening to the environment. The main character was a "tree pusher," a dinosaur who was partially responsible for pushing all the trees down in the forest so the wood could be harvested, mostly for cheap consumer products.
The series ends with the dinosaurs going extinct. Was it the meteor? No, the series began with the meteor being avoided. The series ended, and sorry for the 1990s spoilers, when corporations did multiple things to cause a cascading effect which eventually results in an ice age. The final scene is the Sinclair family freezing to death, watching a news broadcaster tell them that everyone's going to die.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changing_Nature
No one took notice, apparently. No one that needed to anyway.
My parents liked that show, and they still don’t believe in global warming. I think the only thing they remember was the line “we need another Timmy!”
They’ve also told me they don’t want socialized healthcare/any reform because they fully believe others not receiving care is necessary for them to receive good care so…you know they aren’t exactly individuals concerned about anyone but themselves at this exact second.
"judicial overreach"
Good fucking luck finding precedent for that.
Fucking badass.
Hope the ruling stands...
Montana has a great constitution. Really a remarkable document of compromise in all the best ways of the word. I feel like it might shift if a convention is called within the next decade, though.
It’s either this or a certain plumber brother.
Montana? lol. Good luck with trump.