THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: How the environmental left has lost sight of social justice

[WSJ] Now, at the very moment modern energy arrives for global poor—something a prior generation of socialists would have celebrated and, indeed, demanded—today's leading left-wing leaders advocate a return to energy penury. The loudest advocates of cheap energy for the poor are on the libertarian Right, while The Nation dresses up neo-Malthusianism as revolutionary socialism. Left-wing politics was once about destabilizing power relations between the West and the Rest. Now, under the sign of climate justice, it's about sustaining them.

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We're about to pass 400 ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere. If that doesn't scare you, you aren't paying attention http://keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

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here's good news: our protests are pushing the costs of KXL pipeline steadily higher http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/transcanada-says-delays-will-push-keystone-xl-cost-higher/article11567312/?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=Referrer:+Social+Network+/+Media&utm_campaign=Shared+Web+Article+Links … HT@KXLBlockade

2004:  Mount St. Helens Is State's Top Polluter - Science News - redOrbit

SEATTLE (AP) — Washington state’s top polluter isn’t a pulp mill, a power plant or refinery. It’s the newly awakened Mount St. Helens.

Since the volcano began erupting in early October, it has been pumping out 50 to 250 tons a day of sulfur dioxide, the lung-stinging gas that causes acid rain and contributes to haze. At peak, that’s more than double the amount from all the state’s industries combined.
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"You can’t put a cork in it," [For the sake of the children, shouldn't we at least try?]  said Greg Nothstein of the Washington Energy Policy Office.