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Racer de_troit (de_troit)
Race Number 2663
Date Mon, 1 Oct 2012 09:11:26 +0000
Speed 64 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 89.8%
Rank 5th place (out of 5)
Opponents dankksauce (2nd place) mattiispind (3rd place) synergi (1st place) tr0yax (4th place)

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We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy literally everything. And the majority of us live lifestyles undreamed of only a generation or two ago. One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the average household in Europe or North America has so many devices and such a variety of food and clothing that to produce the same lifestyle in Roman times would have required six thousand slaves.
Confessions of an Eco-Sinner: Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff (book) by Fred Pearce (see stats)