Jeff Goodell Quotes
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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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From the industry's point of view, the problem is not that coal companies blast the top off mountains, turning the area into a moonscape and polluting the air and releasing toxic chemical into what's left of the local streams and aquifers. It's that the people who live near the mines are too cozy with their cousins.
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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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Coal boosters like to tout coal as cheap and plentiful - well, not anymore. At least not in China.
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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.
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In recent years, America's wealthiest man has begun to tackle energy issues in a major way, investing millions in everything from high-capacity batteries to machines that can scrub carbon dioxide out of the air. With a personal fortune of $50 billion, Gates has the resources to give his favorite solutions a major boost.
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What is likely to vanish - or be transformed beyond recognition - are many of the things we think of when we think of Australia: the barrier reef, the koalas, the sense of the country as a land of almost limitless natural resources.
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With so much at risk, you might expect Australia to be at the forefront of the clean-energy revolution and the international effort to cut carbon pollution. After all, the continent's vast, empty deserts were practically designed for solar-power installations.
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For better or worse, the bulk of coal industry jobs are in Appalachia - and when that coal is gone, so are the jobs.
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Some studies have shown that natural gas could, in fact, be worse for the climate than coal.
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In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power, bashed energy-efficiency standards, attacked state moves to promote renewable energy and championed laws that would enshrine taxpayer subsidies for fossil fuels while stripping them from wind and solar.
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The first sign of whether Obama is serious about confronting the climate crisis will be revealed by how he organizes the White House.
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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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It may be too late for West Virginia to save itself from the ravages of Big Coal. But it's not too late for America.
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The oil industry fought hard to keep Keystone alive, making wildly exaggerated claims that the pipeline - the country's largest infrastructure project - would create tens of thousands of jobs and decrease America's reliance on oil from the Middle East.
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Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.
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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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Without electrons, there is no Google. And without clean electrons, there will be no Google customers, since we'll all be too busy fleeing from rising seas, droughts, and disease.
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Even the biggest coal boosters have long admitted that coal is a dying industry - the fight has always been over how fast and how hard the industry will fall.
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The relevant questions now are: How do we move beyond coal? How do we bring new jobs to the coal fields and retrain coal miners for other work? How do we inspire entrepreneurialism and self-reliance in people whose lives have been dependent on the paternalistic coal industry?
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Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.
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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.
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In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event.
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The natural gas industry has worked long and hard to smear Josh Fox, the director of 'Gasland,' and has failed.