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4. Mega-corporations
Mon May 6, 2013, 08:28 AM
May 2013

are riding an apocalyptic horse, roughshod across the globe as a scourge with exclusive rights.

As the window for climactic catastrophe opens and the time-frame for the ice melt in the Arctic contracts, the quest for the more expensive petroleum reserves is rather pointless and futile.

The estimates are that we have a clear and present danger. The marker is around burning no more than 20% of the current reserves before we go to two-degrees warmer and beyond. That's critical and so, fracking away is merely a profit-driven obsession that punishes what is left.

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