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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (144155)	9/14/2010 10:05:28 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541866

You are (perhaps not intentionally) accusing people of working the system in getting a higher standard of living and making their children pay. The vast majority of people are not like that. Mary, whether people commit intergenerational theft on purpose or not is irrelevant. Rolling up debts that you won't pay back and that the people who come after you will be responsible is still intergenerational theft. And the financial debts that we have been rolling up over the past 30 years have been pretty massive. The environmental debts that we have been rolling up over the past, roughly, 150 years or so (if we start the modern era of pollution roughly at the Drake oil well in 1859) have the potential to be even more massive if we don't do something about them. It doesn't matter that it was unintentional as far as most people are concerned. And it wouldn't the first time that one generation screwed the next, either environmentally or financially. It has happened many times in the past.