In 2010, Conservatives Still Outnumber Moderates, Liberals

Gallup finds 42% of Americans describing themselves as either very conservative or conservative. This is up slightly from the 40% seen for all of 2009 and contrasts with the 20% calling themselves liberal or very liberal.

Songs on This Fossil Age - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

LIBERATED CARBON (© 2010 Andrew Revkin)

It took a thousand generations for our species to rise.
But gathering and hunting was no way to get by.
We yearned to burn more than dung and sticks.
Then someone [1] came along and said, “Hey, try lighting this.”
He opened up the ground and showed us coal and oil.
He said, “Come liberate some carbon. It’ll make your blood boil.”
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Come on and liberate some carbon, babe, it’s the American way.
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1 ) When I first wrote the tune, I used “Satan” here. I explained my decision to change it to “someone” in a recent interview with Curtis Brainard at Columbia Journalism Review.