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oxbow

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8. Well, we can't split the country with them...
Sun Sep 24, 2017, 05:51 PM
Sep 2017

Environmental protections will not work without national standards, for starters. Pollution in the air and environment doesn't care about state lines, it goes where it will.

We need to come together, but talking is not gonna do it. It's going to take a paradigm shift in culture or technology (or maybe both) to bridge the divide imo.

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I have never seen the country so divided Golden Raisin Sep 2017 #1
I think the opposite Kaleva Sep 2017 #3
OK so you are willing to abandon anyone that doesn't agree? tech3149 Sep 2017 #2
good for you gabeana Sep 2017 #5
I fully agree, and acceptance is the word that comes to mind. KY_EnviroGuy Sep 2017 #9
so you are going to modify gabeana Sep 2017 #11
Nope - didn't say that. KY_EnviroGuy Sep 2017 #15
I respectfully disagree gabeana Sep 2017 #16
ditto nt burnbaby Sep 2017 #12
This country is too diversified to ever be united. Kaleva Sep 2017 #4
I hope I am wrong. Blue_true Sep 2017 #6
"to stuipid" Martin Eden Sep 2017 #7
hey welcome the grammar police did not know I was being gabeana Sep 2017 #10
"standing up for those that believe people and dinasaurs lived arm and arm" Martin Eden Sep 2017 #13
ok gabeana Sep 2017 #14
"lets focus on the issue" Martin Eden Sep 2017 #18
We need people like you gabeana Sep 2017 #20
Well, we can't split the country with them... oxbow Sep 2017 #8
I am with you on this one AmandaRuth Sep 2017 #17
The deplorables idea of unity maxrandb Sep 2017 #19
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