Green Window Into the Future

Green Window Into the Future
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It started with a tweet:

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Twitter is great that way. I know of no better forum for validating one's seemingly universal thoughts and feelings. Yesterday, I got seized with a severe case of eco² panic. Eco like green. Eco like economic. Images of CO2 going nuts, and us still not getting our act together, despite almost daily global warming alerts. And the specter of another Great Depression, only worse this time around.

Thank God, Franke was there to tweet back prompto to shake me up good:

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I must say, I felt a bit ashamed for having given into "defeatism". Imagine if all the citizens voiced out their secret despair as I did. That would be the end of it. Even Bill's chiming in and lecturing Barack, telling him he's not hopeful enough. Yes, we can. And we shall. Still, I could not let go completely of the reality of my malaise.

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That was a pretty wishy-washy tweet. I wasn't even sure where I was going with it. Until Franke's response:

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Thank you, Franke for gifting me, us with your such a wonderful image. Now, whenever I start feeling blue, I will imagine a green window, opening to a new landscape of windmills, and solar farms, and electric cars, and workers going about their green jobs . . .

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