Cooking the Books: The True Climate Impact of Keystone XL

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3. The way to stop fossil fuel extraction is to fight fossil fuel extraction.

I doubt there is any other way to stop fossil fuels except to fight extraction of fossil fuels.

What I hear from you that there is no point to doing anything unless you can do everything. It's like telling a baseball team there is no point getting on first base because you need to get around all the bases and cross home plate to score. And then do it more than the other team to win.

But what I'm thinking is you've got to start somewhere. By fighting pipelines we are working to keep oil in the ground and building organization. Blocking a major piece of new oil infrastructure would be a solid first win that puts us in a stronger position for the next fight.

Stopping Keystone XL will force the industry to find other routes out for the product, to the west or east. In each case there will be no pipelines without a fight.

Also I think building more pipelines into the tarsands will allow for faster extraction. For example if there are 10 pipelines into the tarsands, that's worse than five, because 10 would allow for the stuff to be piped out faster than five would.

Anything that slows down the extraction is good.

Zero probability of stopping all fossil fuels? Again we got to start somewhere. The odds may be bad but that's no reason to quit fighting fossil fuel extraction, otherwise it becomes a self fulfilling prophesy.