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How the US Exports Global Warming - Rolling Stone Article Feb 13,2014 Issue

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One of the best articles explaining why exporting raw fossil fuels - especially petcoke, coal, and sands oil (tar sands bitumen) makes zero economic, ecological, and climate sense. Dispels the myth of "jobs," explains how these industries are dying and how Peabody and other corporations are desperate to offload this stuff to Asia, risking our survival and our future. Explains how we are getting ripped-off, tax-wise by fossil fuel export - the taxpayers are paying for it - Not the corporations, who profit. Shows the Koch Brothers' central role, the politics of it all, Obama's administration's poor record with coal and fossil fuel export while increasing alternative power options, says why a Hilary or Repub. regime (ie Corporate) would be as bad or worse, and more.
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I am a low-to-no-income person getting-older. I work (when i have work) as a seasonal gardener. I'm tired of seeing America eroded by corporate neo- fascists, and tired of watching the gift of life on this miraculous planet be exploited and (more...)
 

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