Quotes by Jeff Goodell - Page 2

One of the pillars of backward thinking in America is the idea that you can have jobs or you can have clean air and water, but you can't have both. That myth has been busted a thousand times, but still it lives on.
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Busted
Clean
Clean Air
Myth
Pillars
Thousand
Backward
Thousand Times
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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.
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Environmental
Cleaning
Coal
Environmental Issues
Important Work
Issues
Mean
Outlaw
Pulse
Racing
Sexy
Hugely
Much Attention
Plants
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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.
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Degrees
Journal
Mit
Thinking
Waiting
Weather
Twice
Earlier
Wait
Published
Warming
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If you are interested enough in the climate crisis to read this post, you probably know that 2 degrees Centigrade of warming (or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) is the widely acknowledged threshold for "dangerous" climate change.
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Climate Change
Crisis
Degrees
Threshold
Acknowledged
Post
Warming
Widely
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By burning fossil fuels, we are already dumping 30 billion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere every year, which has a profound effect on the climate. So, like it or not, we're already messing with a system we don't understand.
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Atmosphere
Burning
Climate
Co2
Profound
Understand
Billion
Year
Every
Dumping
Effect
Fossil
Fossil Fuels
Fuels
Messing
System
Tons
Which
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You gotta love Rick Perry's swagger. The Texas Governor is out there in the Iowa cornfields, unabashedly going to toe-to-toe with President Obama, doing his best to instantly cast himself as the big dog in the Republican pack.
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Dog
Iowa
President Obama
Swagger
Texas
Unabashedly
Love Best Doing
Cast
Gotta
Instantly
Pack
Perry
Rick
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It's not all Obama's fault: His plans to rebuild America's energy infrastructure have been hampered by the recession, and his efforts on global warming have been stymied by Tea Party wackos and weak-kneed Democrats in Congress.
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America
Effort
Global Warming
Infrastructure
Party
Plans
Tea
Tea Party
Democrats
Efforts
Rebuild
Recession
Warming
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What is likely to vanish - or be transformed beyond recognition - are many of the things we think of when we think of Australia: the barrier reef, the koalas, the sense of the country as a land of almost limitless natural resources.
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Limitless
Natural Resources
Recognition
Resources
Transformed
Barrier
Vanish
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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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Coal
Electricity
Filthy
Fuel
Gas
Half
Natural Gas
United States
Cleaner
Indeed
Polluting
Renewable
Solar
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With nine degrees of warming, computer models project that Australia will look like a disaster movie. Habitats for most vertebrates will vanish. Water supply to the Murray-Darling Basin will fall by half, severely curtailing food production.
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Australia
Computer
Degrees
Disaster
Fall
Models
Nine
Water
Project
Habitats
Supply
Vanish
Warming
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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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Climate
Drought
Global Warming
Impact
Long
Burn
Dispute
Impacts
Places
Pointed
Scientists
Southwest
Warming
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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who also happens to be the 10th richest person in America, with a personal fortune of some $18 billion, likes to pick a fight - especially fights where the line between good and evil is particularly stark.
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New York
America
Cities
Fighting
Good And Evil
Likes
New York City
Billion
Michael
Mayor
Richest
Stark
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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?
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Decades
Development
Disputes
Drilling
Frenzy
Gas
Land
Natural Gas
Would Be
Bubble
Cheap
Counted
Sustainable
Good Thing
Grab
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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
Australia
Food Chain
Havoc
Islands
Mean
Pollution
Stronger
Caused
Chain
Continent
Deadly
Island
Oceans
Seas
Storms
Warmer
Wreak
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The oil industry fought hard to keep Keystone alive, making wildly exaggerated claims that the pipeline - the country's largest infrastructure project - would create tens of thousands of jobs and decrease America's reliance on oil from the Middle East.
Jeff Goodell / Author
Claims
Decrease
East
Exaggerated
Infrastructure
Middle East
Oil Industry
Pipeline
Reliance
Project
Fought
Largest
Tens
Tens Of Thousands
Thousands
Wildly
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In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I was taught in fifth-grade American government class, we elect presidents to do more than crass political calculations.
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American Government
Carbon
Class
Drilling
Oil
Taught
Calculation
Elect
Presidents
Putting
Recall
Votes
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Once we start deliberately messing with the climate systems, we could inadvertently shift rainfall patterns (climate models have shown that rainfall in the Amazon might be particularly vulnerable), causing collapse of ecosystems, drought, famine, and more.
Jeff Goodell / Author
Climate
Collapse
Drought
Ecosystems
Famine
Models
Patterns
Causing
Deliberately
Particularly
Inadvertently
Messing
Shift
Shown
Systems
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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.
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Barrels
Canada
Faces
Keystone Pipeline
Long
Mexico
Oil
Pipeline
Approve
Deciding
Gulf
National Interest
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With so much at risk, you might expect Australia to be at the forefront of the clean-energy revolution and the international effort to cut carbon pollution. After all, the continent's vast, empty deserts were practically designed for solar-power installations.
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Australia
Carbon
Empty
Pollution
Revolution
Continent
Deserts
Vast
Forefront
Practically
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The relevant questions now are: How do we move beyond coal? How do we bring new jobs to the coal fields and retrain coal miners for other work? How do we inspire entrepreneurialism and self-reliance in people whose lives have been dependent on the paternalistic coal industry?
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Coal
Dependent
Fields
Inspire
Miners
Relevant
Self Reliance
Work People New
Beyond
New Jobs
Whose
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Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry's worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the moment to draw attention the environmental and public health risks of fracking.
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Environmental
Activist
Aka
Committed
Determined
Gas
Hottest
Natural Gas
Nightmare
Public Health
Stars
Superhero
Worst Nightmares
Draw
Hulk
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Ever since the collapse of cap and trade legislation and the realization that President Obama is unlikely to ever utter the words 'climate change' in public again, much less use the bully pulpit to prepare the nation for the catastrophic risks of inaction, the movement has been in a funk.
Jeff Goodell / Author
Bully
Climate Change
Collapse
Funk
Inaction
Legislation
Movement
President Obama
Pulpit
Realization
Unlikely
Change Risks Climate
Obama
Cap
Catastrophic
Utter
Prepare
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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.
Jeff Goodell / Author
Change
Death
Big Questions
Climate
Climate Change
Debate
Enjoy
Frogs
Heat
Humans
Nice
Pot
Warm
Will
Thing
Big
Much
Pretty
Questions
Any
Bath
Doing
Same
Out
Cooked
Until
Frog
Slowly
Instead
Jump
Put
Same Thing
Seem
Than
Turn
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The end of coal in Appalachia doesn't mean that America is running out of coal (there's plenty left in Wyoming). But it should end the fantasy that coal can be an engine of job creation - the big open pit mines in Wyoming employ a tiny fraction of the number of people in an underground mine in Appalachia.
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Coal
Creation
Fantasy
Job Creation
Mines
Plenty
Tiny
Wyoming
Employ
Engine
Fraction
Pit
Underground
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Corn is already the most subsidized crop in America, raking in a total of $51 billion in federal handouts between 1995 and 2005 - twice as much as wheat subsidies and four times as much as soybeans. Ethanol itself is propped up by hefty subsidies, including a fifty-one-cent-per-gallon tax allowance for refiners.
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Allowance
Corn
Ethanol
Including
Subsidies
Wheat
Tax
Twice
Billion
Crop
Total
Federal
Propped
Subsidized
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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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Air
Aquifers
Blast
Coal
Cousin
Cozy
Mines
Point Of View
Streams
Toxic
Turning
Chemical
Mountains
Local
Near
Polluting
Releasing
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In recent years, America's wealthiest man has begun to tackle energy issues in a major way, investing millions in everything from high-capacity batteries to machines that can scrub carbon dioxide out of the air. With a personal fortune of $50 billion, Gates has the resources to give his favorite solutions a major boost.
Jeff Goodell / Author
Batteries
Boost
Carbon
Carbon Dioxide
Fortune
Gates
Investing
Machines
Millions
Resources
Solutions
Begun
Billion
Recent
Recent Years
Scrub
Tackle
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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 / Author
War
Clean
Clean Energy
Moving
Reality
Renewable Energy
Standards
Stripping
Subsidies
Wind
Attacked
Bashed
Republicans
Fossil
Fossil Fuels
Fuels
Investments
Promote
Renewable
Ridiculed
Solar
Taxpayer
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