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climate change

Declare Independence From Fossil Fuels

July 1, 2017 by Mark Dunlea

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary to act on global warming and dissolve our dependence on fossil fuels, a decent respect to the opinions of others requires that we should declare the causes which impel us to the dissolution. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that the burning of fossil … Read more…

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