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NNadir

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2. You got to the most important point. I would like to believe...
Fri Jun 12, 2026, 09:52 AM
Jun 12

...my sons will sit around a table with their wives after I'm dead and say, "Dad would have loved this."

I don't expect that to happen; I think we've screwed future generations over by ripping the shit out of the Earth for our idiotic bourgeois affectations. That said if anything is to be saved or even restored, I'd like to think one of my sons will be on the front lines.

All of my thoughts on energy and the environment at the end of my life are about a future I will not see. To the extent I involve myself in soothsaying, what I expect is bleak. I very much would like to be wrong.

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