The laws of Congress and the laws of physics have grown increasingly divergent, and the laws of physics are not likely to yield.
BILL MCKIBBEN
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Those of us in the west have figured out a lot of ways to damage the lives of poor people in this country and around the world over the years.
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I’m a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
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