Although most Americans don't know it, the U. S. gets more oil from Canada than it does from … - Jeff Goodell

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It has already been observed that women, wherever placed, however high or low in the scale of cultivation, hold the destinies of human kind. Men will ever rise or fall to the level of the other sex.

Jeff Goodell

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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In reality, studies show that investments to spur renewable energy and boost energy efficiency generate far more jobs than oil and coal.

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So if you want to know how Exxon Mobil can make $10 billion profit in 90 days, just look around. The whole world was built for them.

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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 be doing pretty much the same thing.

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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.

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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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