[MCN] Environmentalists divided on climate change

[Lance Olsen]

2 excerpts: "What may seem like a unified front has pronounced 
schisms, with conflicting opinions on many issues, including nuclear 
power and natural gas, that are complicating what it means to be an 
environmentalist in this day and age.

"The factional boundaries are not hard and fast, with groups shifting 
their positions as the science and waves of activism evolve. The 
environmental movement has always been a congregation of many voices, 
and some disagreement should be expected on such complex and 
intractable problems as saving the planet. Still, the tensions remain 
strong."

"More fundamentally, a split is growing between the large, 
traditional environmental groups that try to work with companies and 
the scrappy campaigners who stand proudly outside."

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/12/science/climate-change-movement.html?_r=0

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"The world's cultivated soils have lost between 50 and 70% of their 
original carbon stock, much of which has oxidized upon exposure to 
air to become CO2." - Diana Donlon, Center for Food Safety

http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/lbryant/soil_foundation_food_water_energy.html

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"Now we have a way of dividing America."

Newt Gingrich, quoted in Greider, William (p. 276)
Who will tell the people. 1992.  Simon & Schuster


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