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Industry's plan for us
The many ways big money seeks to avoid reducing fossil fuel use |
David Roberts |
29 Oct 2007 |
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| The following is a guest essay from Peter Montague, executive director of the Environmental Research Foundation. ----- It now seems clear that the coal and oil industries are not going to allow the United States to curb global warming by making major investments in renewable sources of energy. These fossil fuel corporations simply have too much at stake to allow it. Simple physics tells us that the way to minimize the human contribution to global warming is to ... |
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| Topics: carbon sequestration, climate change mitigation, climate, renewable energy, fossil fuels, energy, geoengineering (all these topics) |
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