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We always hear lots of talk about how our children are going to pay the costs and suffer the consequences of our current environmental policies (or lack therof. .) but I think this often falls on deaf ears. It's either too vague or people don't buy it as a typical "liberal" whine. What can be done to demonstrate the actual costs that we are already paying and have been since the industrial revolution? Things like health care, energy, housing, etc. I think if people who insist that it is a problem that has to be dealt with through economics realized the direct economic impact it is already having on them personally, they might start thinking about solutions a bit more.

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Interesting to link this to the topic of the first show on Tuesday, as far as people coming to the area with money left over from more expensive cities where they used to live. Maybe that's some of what is allowing people to be artists here without much community or government support, as well as snatching up the local real estate?

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