Post by Bobby Drake on Nov 25, 2006 21:14:31 GMT
> " Well, here's hoping to a peaceful future between your teacher and ours"
Bobby raises a caviar-laden cracker in a toast gesture to Robin and John. "Absolutely. To friendship in unexpected places!" He grins, and he's not sure whether it's the humor or the seriousness that he's grinning at.
> " No use fighting over the details if we don't have a healthy planet thirty years from now. "
Now that he thinks about it, it makes sense that someone with Robin’s degree of empathy for plant life would have strong environmentalist attitudes. Bobby wonders whether Storm is the same way.
It’s not something he’s thought about too much himself, beyond the obvious jokes about single-handedly reversing global warming… after watching mutants like Dr. Grey destroy their environments in abrupt and literal ways, it’s hard to get too worked up about things that take decades just to notice. Which is actually sorta dumb, he realizes… just because it’s slow to start up doesn’t make it safe, as anyone who’s faced off against Juggernaut knows full well.
"Yeah, I guess that’s true. It’s hard to remember sometimes that there are other political issues going on besides, well, us, y’know? "
Bobby raises a caviar-laden cracker in a toast gesture to Robin and John. "Absolutely. To friendship in unexpected places!" He grins, and he's not sure whether it's the humor or the seriousness that he's grinning at.
> " No use fighting over the details if we don't have a healthy planet thirty years from now. "
Now that he thinks about it, it makes sense that someone with Robin’s degree of empathy for plant life would have strong environmentalist attitudes. Bobby wonders whether Storm is the same way.
It’s not something he’s thought about too much himself, beyond the obvious jokes about single-handedly reversing global warming… after watching mutants like Dr. Grey destroy their environments in abrupt and literal ways, it’s hard to get too worked up about things that take decades just to notice. Which is actually sorta dumb, he realizes… just because it’s slow to start up doesn’t make it safe, as anyone who’s faced off against Juggernaut knows full well.
"Yeah, I guess that’s true. It’s hard to remember sometimes that there are other political issues going on besides, well, us, y’know? "
