[MCN] Environmentalists divided on climate change

[John Meyer]

Thanks for sharing Lance.

If the hyperlink does not work try this one:

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

On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 6:09 AM, Lance Olsen via Missoula-Community-News <
missoula-community-news at bigskynet.org> wrote:

> 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.ht
> ml?_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
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>
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> *http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/lbryant/soil_foundation_food_water
> <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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