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The following letter from climate activist Bill McKibben was sent out today by 350.org. -- Ed. Dear friends, We woke up this morning with a deep sense of sadness. Hurricane Sandy has brought serious hardship to many of the people we love and places we treasure. Large parts of the Northeast are underwater, millions are still without power, and tens of thousands have been evacuated from their homes. Last night the floodwaters were swirling around the bottom floor of our Brooklyn … [Read more...]
Wall Street is the best immediate target for a huge protest movement, since it was the freewheeling gambling of big banks that pushed the economy over the edge in 2008 and started the Great Recession. Now, as Occupy movements pop up around the US and across the globe to draw attention to economic inequity and the government corruption that abets rule by the top 1%, Occupiers should not forget that ExxonMobil is as guilty as Goldman Sachs in buying politicians and squeezing the 99%. The New … [Read more...]
Every time I'm tempted to stop worrying and love oil companies, they do something to set me straight again. A few weeks ago, when I watched the documentary Houston We Have a Problem, I wanted to hug the Texas oil guys who said that the world was running out of oil and that the economy needed to find another source of energy. Or even start to conserve. Then, there was a heartwarming online video from Transition Houston, featuring a geophysicist, formerly in exploration with major oil … [Read more...]
No surprise, Ye of Little Faith, grumpy radio prophet Harold Camping's rapture didn't work out as scheduled this weekend. But maybe there's another hope for all of us garden-variety sinners to rid ourselves of people who are self-righteous, nutty or just dangerously ambitious. Who is John Galt? In honor of the terrible movie version that just came out of Ayn Rand's terrible book Atlas Shrugged, I'm kind of hoping that free-market revolt leader John Galt might step into the vacuum here. Now … [Read more...]
Can the president who killed Osama bin Laden now stand up to Big Oil? Encouraged by comments made by House Speaker John Boehner that subsidies for oil and gas companies should be on the table, Democrats led by Montana Sen. Max Baucus last week revived their stalled effort to cut billions per year in taxpayer handouts to the largest oil companies. No surprise, Big Oil is not going gently into that good night, even after just reporting profits up 30% from last year. At the same time, … [Read more...]
Poor Exxon. They used to be the oil company that everybody loved to hate. This spawn of the Standard Oil breakup had it all: Obscene profits, the Exxon Valdez, a mean CEO who sneered at clean energy, blatant funding for climate deniers. But now, the new ExxonMobil is just not that special anymore. It turns out that all the big oil companies are buying elections, paying front-groups to spread lies about climate change and dumping their tiny investments in clean energy while continuing to … [Read more...]
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