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If you read closely – and by that I mean look at a news report over the shoulder of a character doing oppositional research in the third episode, “Metamorphosis” – you’ll see that this is a future mankind allegedly asked for.

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Top of mind for me is to right our city’s relationship to water and to land, which has for so long been largely oppositional: trying to engineer against nature, bringing water to the desert, paving our rivers to control floods.

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But Hutson’s conversion shows that in a country deeply dug into oppositional camps, where political views appear cement-hardened into place, there are still those open to persuasion and even willing to change their minds.

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From its inception, the facility faced widespread public opposition, including mass protests, forest defense occupations, and hundreds of hours of oppositional public comment.

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Democrats, likely feeling empowered by their recent electoral victories in Wisconsin, are seizing upon this for oppositional messaging.

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