Fossil fuel is very seductive stuff. [John Maynard] Keynes once said that, as far as he could tell, … - Bill McKibben

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No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship.

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Fossil fuel is very seductive stuff. [John Maynard] Keynes once said that, as far as he could tell, the average standard of living from the beginning of human history to the middle of the eighteenth century had perhaps doubled. Not much had changed, and then we found coal and gas and oil and everything changed. We're reaping the result of that, both ecologically and socially.

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