Jeff Goodell Quotes
In reality, studies show that investments to spur renewable energy and boost energy efficiency generate far more jobs than oil and coal.
The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air and water pollution.
But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.
So if you want to know how Exxon Mobil can make $10 billion profit in 90 days, just look around. The whole world was built for them.
Coal boosters like to tout coal as cheap and plentiful - well, not anymore. At least not in China.
If we drill the hell out of everything, including protected public lands and fragile regions like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, America can emerge as an 'energy superpower.'
The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.
When it comes to energy, cost isn't everything - but it's a lot. Everybody wants cheap power.
For better or worse, the bulk of coal industry jobs are in Appalachia - and when that coal is gone, so are the jobs.
Although most Americans don't know it, the U.S. gets more oil from Canada than it does from the entire Middle East.
Geoengineering - the deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the earth's climate to offset global warming - is a nightmare fix for climate change.
Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?
One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America's energy problems never give up.
Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over climate change.
Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently.
Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesn't show some political courage, he may well be remembered as the president who cooked the planet.
Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.
When it comes to climate and energy, Gates is a radical consumerist. In his view, energy consumption is good - it just needs to be clean energy.
Climate change is a global issue - from the point of view of the Earth's climate, a molecule of CO2 emitted in Bejing is the same as a molecule emitted in Sydney.
This Dewdrop World is a beautiful, courageous, intimate film about love and loss. It may also be the deepest meditation on climate change that I've ever seen.
Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.
In the Arctic, things are already getting freaky. Temperatures have warmed three times faster than the global average.
In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no respect.
In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event.
It may be too late for West Virginia to save itself from the ravages of Big Coal. But it's not too late for America.
Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.
Some studies have shown that natural gas could, in fact, be worse for the climate than coal.
Maybe more climate activists will think about the climate change not as an international problem to be resolved in an air-conditioned meeting hall, but as a guerilla war to be fought in the streets.