The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power. – Jeff Goodell
Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved? – Jeff Goodell
Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns. – Jeff Goodell
Maybe more climate activists will think about the climate change not as an international problem to be resolved in an air-conditioned meeting hall, but as a guerilla war to be fought in the streets. – Jeff Goodell
In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life. – Joseph De Maistre