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Activist Bill McKibben on Why Tar Sands Pipeline Is Game Over for the Climate

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For a fourth straight day outside the White House, environmentalists were arrested for peacefully protesting a pipeline that would carry acidic crude oil from Western Canada to the Texas Gulf Coast. Environmentalist and author Bill McKibben, who spent the weekend with fellow demonstrators in a Washington jail, discusses the the success of the protest and the shortcomings of Obamas environmental policy with Keith.

McKibben echoes the warning from NASAs Jim Hansen that if the Tar Sands project goes forward it will be “essentially game over for the climate.”

via Activist Bill McKibben on Why Tar Sands Pipeline Is Game Over for the Climate | Common Dreams.

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Filed under: Action Alert!, activism, Ecology, economy, energy, Environment, Global Warming, green, News, sustainability Tagged: | Bill McKibben, Gulf Coast of the United States, Keystone Pipeline, Oil sands, Tar Sands, Washington, Western Canada

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