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Three fallacies spread by renewable energy deniers

Those who deny that renewable energy can meet society’s needs use tactics that are almost identical to those of climate change deniers This is the Appendix to “The Base Load Fallacy and other Fallacies...

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Clean energy is possible, practical, and essential – now!

It is fully within our means today to make the alternative energy dream a green reality. All the technologies exist.  Unless we want to consign humanity to a broiling, toxic swamp called earth,...

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Natural gas: no solution to climate change

New Suzuki/Pembina report exposes Canada’s wrong-way policy on natural gas production. by Julia Kilpatrick Pembina Institute, July 14, 2011 In a meeting last April with Canada’s  Senate Standing...

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To protect energy profits, Capital gambles with humanity’s future

by Steve Drury People and Nature,  December 14, 2011 After 12 days of wrangling, posturing, wheeling, dealing, cajoling and demonstrating, delegates at the 17th UN Climate Change Conference in Durban,...

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No time to waste on transition to green energy

Even if we convert totally tomorrow, it would be decades before the transition from coal-based power brings temperature benefits. We have delayed too long already and it is time to get started....

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Natural gas: another magic bullet that won’t stop climate change

 “If you take 40 years to switch over entirely to natural gas, you won’t see any substantial decrease in global temperatures for up to 250 years. There’s almost no climate value in doing it.” ++++++ by...

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Green energy won’t save the earth without social change

The most popular techno-fix for global warming is green energy. If energy companies would only deploy wind, hydro, solar or nuclear, then emission-intensive fossil fuels will eventually disappear. But...

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Capitalism’s destructive quest for extreme energy

To keep the fuel flowing, oil companies are radically increasing the potential for environmental catastrophe. The fight against extreme energy is also a fight against the very soul of an irrational...

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Thirst for power: How coal, nuclear and gas waste our water

Over half of all of the fresh, surface water withdrawn from the environment in the U.S. today is used by power companies. They take the profits, and society pays the price.

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Stop the dash for gas! Activists shut UK power plant

"This action is in defence of the global commons, which are under sustained attack by polluting fossil fuel companies"

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To save the earth, nationalize the energy industry

Energy is far too important to our future to be left in the hands of corporate directors and investment bankers.

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Bolivia puts people and environment before profit

The government of Latin America's poorest country is taking natural resources out of the hands of multinationals, and using that wealth to fight poverty

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Lac-Mégantic and the presumed innocence of capitalism

The Lac-Mégantic disaster shows once again that capitalists are self-interested, uncaring, anti-social actors, not worthy of presumptions in their favor.

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Oil, energy and capitalism: An unpublished talk by Barry Commoner

"Oil companies do not operate for the purpose of producing oil. They operate for the purpose of producing maximum profit. To solve the energy crisis, we have to reorganize our economic system."

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Natural gas: no solution to climate change

New Suzuki/Pembina report exposes Canada’s wrong-way policy on natural gas production. by Julia Kilpatrick Pembina Institute, July 14, 2011 In a meeting last April with Canada’s  Senate Standing...

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To protect energy profits, Capital gambles with humanity's future

by Steve Drury People and Nature,  December 14, 2011 After 12 days of wrangling, posturing, wheeling, dealing, cajoling and demonstrating, delegates at the 17th UN Climate Change Conference in Durban,...

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A socialist defends nuclear energy

A contribution to an important debate. Is nuclear power essential or an unacceptable threat?

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Corporate power blocks global energy transition

The world’s current energy system is unsustainable and unjust. It harms communities, workers, the environment and the climate. A new report shows why an energy revolution is needed, and identifies the...

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Socialists debate nuclear, 2: Still no nukes!

Michael Friedman says our primary task is not to offer technological solutions to capitalist ills, but to offer social solutions that incorporate the technologies most amenable to our social goals....

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Socialists debate nuclear, 3: Unsafe, unaffordable, unnecessary

Continuing our discussion on atomic energy. Chris Williams says nuclear is no solution to global warming — it's dangerous, expensive, and can't be deployed quickly enough.

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