Is the Keystone XL Pipeline the "Stonewall" of the Climate Movement?

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7. You're saying it doesn't matter how easy it is

to exploit something like the tar sands... there is always someone else or some other way, so..... might as well be us at the lowest possible monetary cost.

That is the sheer idiocy that drives the race to the bottom. There is *always* someone else, they say, who will exploit the situation if we don't exploit it for them.

What a fine, upstanding approach you have to the problem of curtailing carbon emissions.


Why not make it harder and more expensive for them? Then they'll consume less of the tar sands or at least at a slower rate. It will eat into their profit margin, making the life of the project all that much shorter.