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Quotes by Jeff Goodell
- In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I was taught in fifth-grade American government class, we elect presidents to do more than crass political calculations.
- In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power, bashed energy-efficiency standards, attacked state moves to promote renewable energy and championed laws that would enshrine taxpayer subsidies for fossil fuels while stripping them from wind and solar.
- In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010.
- 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.
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