Quotes by Jeff Goodell

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Although most Americans don’t know it, the U.S. gets more oil from Canada than it does from the entire Middle East.

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Americans don’t pay much attention to environmental issues, because they aren’t sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesn’t get anybody’s pulse racing.

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Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.

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Australia is the only island continent on the planet, which means that changes caused by planet-warming pollution – warmer seas, which can drive stronger storms, and more acidic oceans, which wreak havoc on the food chain – are even more deadly here.

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Ocean

Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he’s already shifting the debate over climate change.

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Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.

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Bloomberg’s $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently.

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But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.

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Uranium Mining

Climate change is a global issue – from the point of view of the Earth’s climate, a molecule of CO2 emitted in Bejing is the same as a molecule emitted in Sydney.

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Issues

Views

Climate scientists have long pointed to the Southwest as one of the places in the U.S. that is most vulnerable to global warming impacts, especially drought. And if there’s one thing that even climate denialists don’t dispute, dry things burn.

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Long

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Quotes by Jeff Goodell

Jeff Goodell

Although most Americans don’t know it, the U.S. gets more oil from Canada than it does from the entire Middle East.

Americans don’t pay much attention to environmental issues, because they aren’t sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesn’t get anybody’s pulse racing.

Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.

Australia is the only island continent on the planet, which means that changes caused by planet-warming pollution – warmer seas, which can drive stronger storms, and more acidic oceans, which wreak havoc on the food chain – are even more deadly here.

Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he’s already shifting the debate over climate change.

Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.

Bloomberg’s $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently.

But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.

Climate change is a global issue – from the point of view of the Earth’s climate, a molecule of CO2 emitted in Bejing is the same as a molecule emitted in Sydney.

Climate scientists have long pointed to the Southwest as one of the places in the U.S. that is most vulnerable to global warming impacts, especially drought. And if there’s one thing that even climate denialists don’t dispute, dry things burn.

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