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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWe will burn every last drop of oil on this planet or die trying.
We will burn every last drop of oil on this planet or die trying.
Billions of dollars of coastal real estate will be under the sea. Crop yields will plummet. Electricity demand will soar as life becomes increasingly unbearable without air conditioning.
The polar ice caps will become polar slush caps. Many people will continue to insist that global warming is a hoax. And no matter what anybody actually believes, or thinks they can prove, about what's causing the obvious degradation of the biosphere, humanity will continue spewing carbon into the air.
Last week, The Wall Street Journal reported that the Obama administration has opened the spigot, allowing two U.S. companies to export unrefined oil for the first time since the Arab oil embargo of the early 1970s.
Republicans cried "drill, baby, drill" at their 2008 convention. But under Democrats, it's been "frack, baby, frack."
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http://online.wsj.com/articles/al-lewis-says-were-fracking-toward-ruin-1404000837
It's difficult for me to laud President Obama on his environmental record because of this stuff. Fracking is without doubt, the greatest immediate threat to our environment.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)There may be occasional time-outs as we fight for water and food instead.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)nationalize the fed
(2,169 posts)Orrex
(63,085 posts)If we were spiraling toward doom without any course of action on the table, then I'd be worried. But I'm comforted to know that we are diving into the future with eyes wide open.
We're number one! We're number one!
ladjf
(17,320 posts)SamKnause
(13,043 posts)Only the 1% that controls everything that happens on this planet.
WorseBeforeBetter
(11,441 posts)They're master manipulators.
librechik
(30,663 posts)it's a crisis economy. Boom and bust. That's how dynastic plutocracies are built and maintained. Always and forever.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)we're running out of oil and killing others to find more and more....and more.....till that runs out.....and then what? Back to the caves. Probably. And those still alive from all the pollution caused by that "burning", well a lot of them will be the "who? I didn't do it crowd". Yep, yep you're right as you usually are in these comments.
Tetris_Iguana
(501 posts)Probably have a sizable population "correction" doing so, too.
Quite sad, really.