You know what they say: when privacy is criminalized, only criminals will have privacy. - Daniel Suarez

even if today we reduced carbon emissions to zero — and we’re far from that — the amount of CO2 already in the atmosphere will cause the Earth to keep warming for a century or more.

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You might not think it, but it was always the farmers who raised hell in this country. They worked for themselves, were self-reliant, and weren’t about to take shit from anybody. But then some clever bastard figured out how to make crops inedible. My family’s been doing industrial farming for forty years and all it produces is debt, pollution, and water shortages. It ruins the land and the people on it.