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Climate change is just the

Submitted by Eric Gutierrez (guest) on Wed, 07/24/2013 - 2:20pm.

Climate change is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to lack of scientific understanding.

Speak to your average person about physics and you'll see just how, and I'm going to be blunt about this, how stupid the general public is.

The problem is not a question of communication on the part of the scientific community, the problem is humanity is living at an antiquated.

If technology and behavior had progressed much more quickly, automated mechanization would have ended our labor for income for resources system a long time ago.

Ultimately though it comes down to a change in behavior and if every person wants to increase their intellegence, we are going to have to abandon our money structured society.

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