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Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Night of the Living Dead, Climate Change-Style How to Stop the Fossil Fuel Industry From Wrecking Our World

Night of the Living Dead, Climate Change-Style
How to Stop the Fossil Fuel Industry From Wrecking Our World
By Bill McKibben
When I was a kid, I was creepily fascinated by the wrongheaded idea, current in my grade school, that your hair and your fingernails kept growing after you died. The lesson seemed to be that it was hard to kill something off -- if it wanted to keep going.
Something similar is happening right now with the fossil fuel industry. Even as the global warming crisis makes it clear that coal, natural gas, and oil are yesterday’s energy, the momentum of two centuries of fossil fuel development means new projects keep emerging in a zombie-like fashion.
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http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176092/tomgram%3A_bill_mckibben%2C_the_real_zombie_apocalypse/#more

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