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In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always w

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. – Jeff Goodell

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In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010. – Jeff Goodell

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Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up. – Jeff Goodell

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But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid. – Jeff Goodell

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