Showing posts with label Tar Sands. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tar Sands. Show all posts

Friday, May 11, 2012

Game Over for the Climate?

Jor-El was right. Have we learned nothing from
Superman?
On one side, there are scientists, saying that we're getting perilously close to the point of no return: coastal cities under water, melting ice sheets, intolerable heat. And on the other, we have the talking heads on FOX "News," saying it's all a hoax. Who do you believe? Listen, I'm gay. . .no plans for children. I'll be old or dead by the time things get that bad. But what about you "family values" types? You've got kids. . .grandkids. . .What if they're right?

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Game Over for the Climate

GLOBAL warming isn’t a prediction. It is happening. That is why I was so troubled to read a recent interview with President Obama in Rolling Stone in which he said that Canada would exploit the oil in its vast tar sands reserves “regardless of what we do. . .”

Read more at: The New York Times 
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