The Dire, Unavoidable Truth

Al Gore called it The Inconvenient Truth, and I’ll bet he’s had many sleepless nights since his film came out.

We live in very troubling times, since the gravity of the looming climate crisis is being pushed out of people’s minds by a desperate concern to restore economic growth, aided by a successful campaign by climate-deniers and fossil fuel interests to downplay the risks of climate change and emphasize the virtues of the so-called ‘ethical’ oil sands and so-called ‘clean’ natural gas.

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