February 2012
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“The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.”
– Linus Pauling, chemist, peace activist, author, educator; Nobel Prize in chemistry, Nobel Peace Prize (1901-1994)
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“Students today are over $1 trillion in debt. That’s more than credit card debt....”
– Noam Chomsky
(via azspot)
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Do Americans Really Support Shipping Toxic Sludge... →
First of all, you won’t find tar sands mentioned in any of the polling. And in most polls, you won’t even find oil. It’s just the Keystone XL pipeline, no context, no mention of what it will carry, and certainly no mention of the environmental risks of building a massive pipeline to carry toxic tar sands sludge through the heartland of America to the gulf of Mexico, where it would be...
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Canadian Government Poisoning Wolves to Slow Rapid... →
Oh my fucking god.
Canada’s caribou population are in steep decline. That’s due in part to the destruction of habitat through logging, expanding tar sands production, and other industrial development in the province of Alberta.
But rather than focus on habitat conservation efforts to protect threatened caribou populations in the province, Canadian officials are poisoning and shooting...
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“Contrary to how it seems to work with the rest of the human species, if you want...”
– Me
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“Mitt didn’t just beat Newt Gingrich, he stomped him by a devastating 14...”
– Stephen Colbert
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“When policymakers see things like climate change, peak oil, the economic crisis,...”
– Ahmed, The Crisis of Civilization (via solitaryforager)
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“Greenhouse gas emissions and global warming are among humanity’s most pressing...”
– Saudi Arabia’s oil minister (seriously!)
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