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We make some of our greatest gains
When we see old things
In new ways
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by Dr. Steve Mason 43

Member L.A. County Bar Association ~ FINRA Arbitrator
The Behavioral Sink
California State Bar Since 1975
Way back when, in the middle of the took several breeding pairs of rats, Celebrating Super Lawyer status for 13 years 2007 through 2019
20th Century, people weren’t worried enclosed them in a large barn that was
about Global Warming. In fact, the well supplied with food and water and
big bugaboo at that time was Global allowed them to reproduce. What do
Cooling! Just twenty thousand years you suppose happened?
earlier, much of what would become
the USA was under a two mile thick At first, the colony of rats did just
glacier. Imagine ten thousand feet of fine. They ate and reproduced. But then A Sense of Purpose: Join a Service Group
ice and snow covering everything from they started to get a little crowded.
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As you can see, scary forecasts have a wide-scale death and disease.
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rapidly accelerating population is no Look At It This Way
forecast. It’s right here and it’s right
now. If you haven’t been keeping When a Presidential candidate runs on Refreshed for the
track, the number of Americans has the slogan ‘Make America Great Again’
more than doubled from 150 million in it’s pretty obvious that changes have Smart & Savvy Adult
1950 to over 300 million today. Now taken place and that they haven’t been
ask yourself, is there any problem we for the better. Today we see border
have today that wouldn’t be improved conflicts and uncontrolled migration
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Wondering how people were going while we hear about changing weather Interactive & Informative
to react to a Soylent Green level of patterns, that’s merely a result. The root
crowding, psychologists in the 1960’s cause is a far more difficult problem to
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Behavioral Sink experiment. They
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4 November 2019