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Skippy and his friend had travelled far and wide, only to find themselves stranded in Melbourne.

Doesn't it depend on the nature of the division? Which may range from something that merely stimulates debate and inquiry - which is not an issue, progressing up the scale to mild disagreement, irritation, resentment, through to verbal abuse and outright physical violence.

Is it not the degree of emotional investment someone has in an idea or belief that creates resentment or a sense of threat when it is questioned or challenged. If you have no emotional investment in the ideas being debated or challenged, you are not going to be upset over it. With emotional...

Does division and conflict not come in degrees? Mild disagreement over things that don't matter doesn't lead to war, but people do ostracise their own family members over religion, or kill and die for a cause that others disagree with.

We are not united in politics, ideology, religion, etc, obviously, the things that divide us and bring about conflict through division.

When have humans ever been united for long? Religion is fragmented, politics divided, ideology, identity, tribalism, wealth, power, race........

Fig leaves are the thing, I hear told.

Whatever anyone may be, deny it or not, the evidence shows that earth’s climate is changing and that we are contributing to it through our economic activity and emissions.

The next two years should be interesting.....?

Hee/Haw sounds suspiciously like the language of Donkeys, not sure of which region or dialect. Maybe native to Santa Monica 👈🧐

So you say.

It's a discussion forum, where members can respond as they see fit.

It's your beliefs that creates a block, you are not willing to acknowledge or consider the evidence that is there for all to see.

Inputs make it variable. Our industrial scale input is having an effect.

It is climate Denialism that goes against the evidence, which makes it a matter of faith, a religion.