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Posted Mon Apr 8 2013: from TomDispatch:
Is the Keystone XL Pipeline the "Stonewall" of the Climate Movement? http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1365436911
...Recently, I had a long talk with an administration insider who kept telling me that, for the next decade, we should focus all our energies on "killing coal." Why? Because it was politically feasible. And indeed we should, but climate-change science makes it clear that we need to put the same sort of thought and creative energy into killing oil and natural gas, too. I mean, the Arctic -- from Greenland to its seas -- essentially melted last summer in a way never before seen. The frozen Arctic is like a large physical feature. It's as if you woke up one morning and your left arm was missing....
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