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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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Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change. – Jeff Goodell

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With nine degrees of warming, computer models project that Australia will look like a disaster movie. Habitats for most vertebrates will vanish. Water supply to the Murray-Darling Basin will fall by half, severely curtailing food production. – Jeff Goodell

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Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but hes already shifting the debate over climate change. – Jeff Goodell

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