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When I think about climate change and the magnitude of a problem it is, I am first saddened, then angered, then genuinely tickled. I can't help but laugh. And I resent myself for that.

When a problem is so large as to boggle the mind, I find it hard to be anything but amused. Like… HAHA! I'm an accomplice to stupefying loss of life, calamitous extinction, and figurative bioterrorism! HEHE! I live in literal sin by being a member of the first world! I am the problem! I should be self-hating! I am guilty as charged!

But, LOL, I'm self-loving and have no remorse!

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