“Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesn't show some political courage, he may well be remembered as the president who cooked the planet.”
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Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.
Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?
The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.
But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.
