Jeff Goodell Quotes

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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.

  Jeff Goodell

  Jobs, Reality, Oil

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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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  Nice, Climate, Frogs

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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.

  Jeff Goodell

  Looks, World, Want

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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.

  Jeff Goodell

  Stupid, Oil, Uranium Mining

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• You think the weather is weird now? Just wait. A new MIT study, just published in a peer-reviewed journal, projects that the Earth could see warming of more than 9 degrees F by 2100 - more than twice earlier projections.

  Jeff Goodell

  Thinking, Weather, Waiting

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• Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.

  Jeff Goodell

  Oil, Energy, Nasty

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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.

  Jeff Goodell

  Cousin, Aquifers, Air

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• Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over climate change.

  Jeff Goodell

  Fighting, Climate, Bills

  Interview with Bill Gates, www.rollingstone.com. December 9, 2010.

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• Compared to coal, which generates almost half the electricity in the United States, natural gas is indeed a cleaner, less polluting fuel. But compared to, say, solar, it's filthy. And of course there is nothing renewable about natural gas.

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  United States, Coal, Half

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• Maybe more climate activists will think about the climate change not as an international problem to be resolved in an air-conditioned meeting hall, but as a guerilla war to be fought in the streets.

  Jeff Goodell

  War, Thinking, Air

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• Americans don't pay much attention to environmental issues, because they aren't sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesn't get anybody's pulse racing.

  Jeff Goodell

  Sexy, Mean, Issues

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• Nobody disputes that cheap natural gas would be a good thing for the economy. The question is, is this a sustainable new development that can be counted on for decades to come, or simply a 'bubble' brought on by a land grab and drilling frenzy?

  Jeff Goodell

  Land, Would Be, Development

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• If we drill the hell out of everything, including protected public lands and fragile regions like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, America can emerge as an 'energy superpower.'

  Jeff Goodell

  Land, America, Wildlife

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• When it comes to global warming, coal is the gorilla in the room.

  Jeff Goodell

  Coal, Gorillas, Rooms

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• Australia is the only island continent on the planet, which means that changes caused by planet-warming pollution - warmer seas, which can drive stronger storms, and more acidic oceans, which wreak havoc on the food chain - are even more deadly here.

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  Ocean, Mean, Australia

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• Is it in our national interest to overheat the planet? That's the question Obama faces in deciding whether to approve Keystone XL, a 2,000-mile-long pipeline that will bring 500,000 barrels of tar-sand oil from Canada to oil refineries on the Gulf of Mexico.

  Jeff Goodell

  Oil, Long, Keystone Pipeline

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• The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air and water pollution.

  Jeff Goodell

  Air, Water, Fossils

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• Although most Americans don't know it, the U.S. gets more oil from Canada than it does from the entire Middle East.

  Jeff Goodell

  Oil, Middle East, Doe

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• Climate scientists have long pointed to the Southwest as one of the places in the U.S. that is most vulnerable to global warming impacts, especially drought. And if there's one thing that even climate denialists don't dispute, dry things burn.

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  Impact, Long, Climate

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• In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010.

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  Weather, Damage, Economic

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• When it comes to energy, cost isn't everything - but it's a lot. Everybody wants cheap power.

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  Energy, Cost, Want

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• In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power, bashed energy-efficiency standards, attacked state moves to promote renewable energy and championed laws that would enshrine taxpayer subsidies for fossil fuels while stripping them from wind and solar.

  Jeff Goodell

  War, Moving, Reality

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• Coal boosters like to tout coal as cheap and plentiful - well, not anymore. At least not in China.

  Jeff Goodell

  Coal, China, Wells

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• The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.

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  Political, Coal, Economy

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• Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?

  Jeff Goodell

  Environmental, Climate, Global Warming

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