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THE SECRET OF MY OPTIMISM --Neil Greenberg

4/29/2015

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I’ve attended a lot of meetings with environmental groups. What strikes me is the pessimism and victim mentality about climate change: “It’s too late, we don’t have enough money, we’re losing the p.r. battle.”

From the perspective of my life experience, I respond:  “So what?”
  • When I was a kid, there were neighborhoods we couldn’t move into because we were Jewish. My father, who graduated at the top of his class, couldn’t get a job at most accounting firms for the same reason.
  • People were scared to death of homosexuals, who they thought were perverts and child molesters.

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