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Old 07-24-2008, 08:52 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by landpoke View Post
You mock, but the article I posted proves that the primordial struggle between man and nature for our very survival is not over. Not by a long shot.
I mock your use of the plural pronoun, "our," as if humanity is still in a death match with bears and wolves. We won that battle long ago. The only death match with nature we're in now, that is humanity and not a few isolated humans in Kamkatchka (which I always owned in Risk, by the way), is the one of our own making.
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