Via: Truth-Out
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
James Hansen’s eye-opening article, “Game Over for the Climate,” brought widespread attention to the Alberta Tar Sands in Canada as a source of carbon which, if tapped, would lead to irreversible global warming. There is another climate bomb in the United States, shale gas hydraulic fracking, which emits methane, more dangerous than CO2.
While many rhetorically call natural gas a bridge to the clean energy future, new information is showing the opposite; natural gas will hasten climate change, poisons the air, land and water, and carries unacceptable risks to our health.
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So many ways for clean energy. Natural gas is used only because there is no profit in researching the cleaner technologies and all the money for the research is misallocated to fields that don’t create value, e. g. military, private banking system, corruption etc.