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We have to wonder what it might take to get American society to recognize how damaging our addiction to oil is at some fundamental level. Our addiction weakens us financially, puts our economy’s health at the whim of foreign actors, helps fund those threatening us, shortens our lives due to health impacts, threatens our future […]

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With the quite stark contrast between the Department of Interior’s go-ahead to offshore wind turbines (Cape Wind) and the worsening disaster of ever more oil coming over the Horizon from the Deepwater (e.g, Deepwater Horizon’s explosion and resulting dumping of untold amounts of oil into the Gulf of Mexico), people are turning to the question: […]

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Several months ago, The Washington Post editorial page ever so innocently asked: What’s going on? The issue at hand: that scientists are clear as to the realities of human impacts on the climate but the public is confused. Contrary to what you may have read lately, there are few reputable scientists who would disagree with […]

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Painful times call for painful humor to help release the tension and, at times, find whatever Silver Lining might exist in disastrous circumstances. Looking to the seemingly endless wave descending on the Gulf Coast, threatening fragile environmental spaces and many different economic activities (fishing, tourism, …), it would be easy to imagine that the following […]

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During the 2008 campaign, a Palin-McCain Michigan ad had this line: “Offshore drilling to reduce the price of gas to spur truck sales.” How many times does it need to be said? Offshore drilling is, at best, a 1 cent, 1 percent solution 20 years off to the question of gasoline prices. According to Department […]

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