The Keystone Distraction
How Environmentalists Got Lost in a Dangerously Misguided Battle
Climate activists amassed an impressive army to march on Washington
against the Keystone XL pipeline and the dirty oil it would bring from Canada to
U.S. refineries and world energy markets. In this fight, however, a
relatively small volume of carbon-dioxide emissions is at stake -- the
Environmental Protection Agency estimates that those from Keystone
amount to a mere 0.2 percent of the “carbon budget” that scientists say we need to shrink in order to avoid catastrophic warming.
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