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[brushwolf]

I just think if you're lower income -- one, you're not as educated, two, they don't understand how it works, they don't understand how the systems work, they don't understand the impact.

My degree tells me that I know a little about chemistry, physics, and Amerindian cultures. My degree tells me that I have some idea of how freshwater and maritime systems work and the things that might impact them. Maybe my income doesn't tell me much about the need to treat workers like shit and to deny anything that looks like science in the interests of making more money, and how that's a great thing. So what does your education tell you? Because I'd really like to know.

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[wynkat]

*snort* that person is an idiot. My fancy education tells me way too much about alternative religions (and was supposed to tell me way more about comparative religion and philosophy but ah well). the less fancy education tells me how to write and how to think - thats a quote from the president of my college and she was right. Frankly no one taught me how to flip burgers or answers phones, I had to learn that on my own. hmmmmm.

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[ysabetwordsmith]

My education tells me ...

1) Politicians like to speak in logical fallacies.

2) The stock market runs on a sine wave function similar to a predator/prey cycle in biology. It will ALWAYS go up and down unless dismantled and replaced with some other economic system. Yet economists seem to believe that when something is up, it's never coming down, and we keep getting these bubbles.

3) The climate of the Earth is changing in specific observable ways that do not benefit humanity or other species.

4) Healthy citizens are more functional than unhealthy ones, giving an advantage to societies that have healthy ones.

5) Fossil fuels are finite. They will run out. Renewable resources are not finite, for the purposes of humanity's habitation here on Earth.

6) This is not rocket science. But to add that, this planet has been hit by large space debris multiple times in the past with extreme damage to the ecosystem. Given that we have the technology to do so, it would be prudent to identify NEO threats and take steps to protect the Earth.