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To try and be a decent human being should be taught and reinforced constantly to every child and person on the planet.

Thank you for this Rob. 💔

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Thank you for this. Heart breaking.

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Thank you, Rob. That things like this need to be said is outrageous in itself. And you've said it, written it, in the perfect tone it needs to be said in. The photograph alone is horrendous; something about those sweet elephants in this context breaks your heart.

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I know.

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What's so disturbing is to see the silencing going on. Dark stuff.

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Thank you Rob. The Palestinians are with me every day and at times every moment.

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Thank you, Rob. We generally think of climate change as happening “out there” in the environment. Humans are also the environment where climate change, the speeded up frenzy of heating molecules, is happening. Perhaps this is one horrible example.

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I edited my article here, Rob, to include your very sad but still brilliant quote as an epigraph.

https://rword.substack.com/p/smoking-marlboros-in-palestine

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