“If you align your priorities in such a way that puts people first, everything begins to make more sense.” Quote by Chalene Johnson
“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.” WaterAirEffectsCostPicksFuelPollutionEconomistFossilsFossil FuelAir And WaterBurning Fossil FuelsWater Pollution Author:Jeff Goodell
“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.” BigsStupidDependsIndustryOilPropagandaCoalTobaccoMiningDrillingBig OilUranium MiningTobacco Industry Author:Jeff Goodell
“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.” LooksFallWaterHalfDegreesComputerProjectsModelsProductionsDisasterNineAustraliaDarlingHabitatFood ProductionVertebratesDisaster Movie Author:Jeff Goodell
“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.” ThinkingEarthWaitingStudyDegreesProjectsWeatherPeersJournalProjectionMit Author:Jeff Goodell
“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.” BigsPresidentDogRepublicanCastsTexasPresident ObamaGovernorsPacksToesIowaSwagger Author:Jeff Goodell
“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.” PeopleProblemLeftViewsCompanyAirMinesIndustryMountainAreasPoint Of ViewLocalsStreamsChemicalsToxicCoalCousinBlastCozyToxic ChemicalsAquifers Author:Jeff Goodell
“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.” MeanSeaPlanetsOceanStrongerStormChainsIslandsAustraliaPollutionContinentsHavocFood Chain Author:Jeff Goodell
“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.'” IfsAmericaEnergyHellLandIncludingRegionsFragileProtectedRefugeWildlifeSuperpowerDrillsArcticPublic Lands Author:Jeff Goodell
“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.” ThinkingWarProblemAirStreetsMeetingsClimateClimate ChangeInternationalHallsActivist Author:Jeff Goodell
“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?” Would BeNaturalEconomyLandDevelopmentGood ThingsDecadesGasBubblesDisputesFrenzyNatural GasDrilling Author:Jeff Goodell