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Column: Net zero 2050? That’s nothing – hold my beer
« on: May 19, 2023, 06:34:26 am »
Column: Net zero 2050? That’s nothing – hold my beer
May 16, 20237:20 AM Terry Etam4 Comments

Serious goal-setting seems like a very good way to torment oneself, creating a new reason out of thin air. My New Year’s resolution is to avoid setting goals. Type A is not my type.

But maybe it’s time to turn over a new leaf. I’ve decided I don’t want to be a bedridden old coot. So it’s showtime.

By the year 2050, I’m going to be the first 80-something to run a sub-four-minute mile. I’m going to bench press 1,200 pounds and win the Tour de France five times in a row, all as an octogenarian.

Aw come on. You’re laughing at me. Why do you have to be like that?

I’m not crazy, I’m just trying to get with the times. Aspiration is everything, reality is nothing.

https://boereport.com/2023/05/16/column-net-zero-2050-thats-nothing-hold-my-beer/
The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address