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What if We Stopped Pretending the Climate Apocalypse Can Be Stopped? | The New Yorker

…because, at some point, we’re going to have to wrap our lips around both barrels of this.

— Read on www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/what-if-we-stopped-pretending

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The Complete Story of the Kingston Coal-Ash Spill

The 2008 Kingston Fossil Plant coal-ash disaster has killed scores of people and made hundreds ill—and attorney Jim Scott wants TVA to pay.
— Read on www.mensjournal.com/features/coal-disaster-killing-scores-rural-americans/

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United States Spend Ten Times More On Fossil Fuel Subsidies Than Education

…math is, like, hard.

Amidst reports of a continuing climate crisis, an International Monetary Fund study released last month shows that USD$5.2 trillion was spent globally on fossil fuel subsidies in 2017. The United States has spent more subsidizing fossil fuels in recent years than it has on defense or education.
— Read on www.forbes.com/

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Fossil Fuel Subsidies Cost U.S. More than Defense Budget: IMF Report – Rolling Stone

Let’s have a conversation about how externalities are the root of 78% of evil in the world at some point, yeah?

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— Read on www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/fossil-fuel-subsidies-pentagon-spending-imf-report-833035/