They were not interested in learning that there might be any middle ground between "good mother" and "human garbage" or a positive outcome.

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We have 191 million buildings in the EU. The mission now is to convert the entire building stock of Europe to partial green power plants that can collect solar energy on the roofs, wind energy off the sides of the building, geothermal energy from the ground below the building, biomass energy from the conversion of garbage in the building, etc.

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It sounded like a garbage truck many blocks away dropping a dumpster hard on the ground.

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