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Environment & Energy

AloeVera

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1. Why insist on a concensus decision?

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Sun Aug 17, 2025, 01:14 PM

Aug 17

Who made that rule? It's like the veto power at the UN, ensuring nothing important ever gets done and the minority rules. We have to kill off this deference to planet-and people-killing superpowers and petrostates.

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Why insist on a concensus decision? AloeVera Aug 17 #1