Russia is known for its chess grandmasters, but in Helsinki on July 16th, Trump and Putin, possibly motivated by oil interests, may have handed a checkmate to the rest of the world. This week, follow us through a chain of news analysis that illustrates America’s obsession with fossil fuels and why it promises to lead only to stranded and ---literally---sunken assets.
Further reading:
- Globe deceptively headlines “Massachusetts residents pay the highest average retail price for power in the continental US”
- https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/editorials/2018/07/14/massachusetts-residents-pay-highest-average-retail-price-for-power-continental/wz7NoIcHyjRWAgFpvrvq4M/story.html
- Trump and Putin are clearly in cahoots---over propping up fossil fuels
- https://grist.org/article/trump-and-putin-are-clearly-in-cahoots-over-propping-up-fossil-fuels/
- Turning Trump’s trade war into a tool to fight climate change https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16072018/trade-war-trump-tariffs-border-tax-carbon-footprint-fossil-fuels-climate-change-analysis
- We need to accept that oil is a dying industry https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/z438j8/we-need-to-accept-that-oil-is-a-dying-industry
- Clean energy is catching up to natural gas https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/7/13/17551878/natural-gas-markets-renewable-energy
- Rising sea levels will soon destroy underground US internet cables, scientists warn
- https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/sea-levels-rise-internet-cables-climate-change-underground-new-york-miami-a8449716.html
Because we recognize the necessity of personal accountability for our actions, because we accept responsibility for building a durable future and because we believe it is our patriotic duty as citizens to speak out, we must insist that the United States put a price on carbon.
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