Rage against the machine

and the fossil fuel industry it runs on.

"We’ll greet Bill McKibben first in Rolling Stone, where he wrote last summer:

 Pure self-interest probably won’t spark a transformative challenge to fossil fuel. But moral outrage just might – and that’s the real meaning of this new math. It could, plausibly, give rise to a real movement. 

There’s definitely lots to be outraged about. Mitt Romney said at the "debate," for instance, "I like coal." He doesn't understand or care, evidently, that "a coal-fired power plant doesn't need an accident to wreck the planet; it performs that task constantly." But at least it employs coal-miners, eh? Except when it kills them.

His energy plan is clear: He proposes North American energy independence through the proven strategy of drilling into any part of the continent that looks black or looks like there might be something black underneath it. Mexico oil, Canada oil, whatever. That’s Mitt’s plan.

So... what's our next step, class?

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