Jeff Goodell
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“Maybe more climate activists will think about the climate change not as an international problem to be resolved in an air-conditioned meeting hall, but as a guerilla war to be fought in the streets.” -Jeff Goodell
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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.” -Jeff Goodell
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“Drill everything, mine everything, roll back regulations, tweak the science, expedite permits. Sound familiar? The Republicans offer up more 19th-Century solutions to our 21st-Century energy problems.” -Jeff Goodell
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“In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no respect.” -Jeff Goodell
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“One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America’s energy problems never give up.” -Jeff Goodell
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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.” -Jeff Goodell
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“The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call ‘external costs,’ like the health effects of air and water pollution.” -Jeff Goodell
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“In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I was taught in fifth-grade American government class, we elect presidents to do more than crass political calculations.” -Jeff Goodell
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“With nine degrees of warming, computer models project that Australia will look like a disaster movie. Habitats for most vertebrates will vanish. Water supply to the Murray-Darling Basin will fall by half, severely curtailing food production.” -Jeff Goodell
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“Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.” -Jeff Goodell
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“Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?” -Jeff Goodell
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“One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it won’t jump out. Instead, it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to…
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“Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesn’t show some political courage, he may well be remembered as the president who cooked the planet.” -Jeff Goodell
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“One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it won’t jump out. Instead, it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to…
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“Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.” -Jeff Goodell
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In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010. – Jeff Goodell
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