[MCN] A telling pair of headlines : Drill, baby, drill --> Burn, baby, burn

[Lance Olsen]

Earth Has Seen CO2 Spike Before. It Didn’t End Well.
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It's unclear exactly what happened 252 million years ago as the planet warmed, but 90 percent of species went extinct.
Bloomberg
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America's Oil And Gas Reserves Double With Massive New Permian Discovery
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The United States Geological Survey just identified the world's largest unconventional oil and gas potential buried within the Permian basin, containing over 46 ...
Forbes
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In a December 2015 Media Briefing, Extreme Carbon Inequality, Oxfam reports that, “ the poorest half of the global population – around 3.5 billion people – are responsible for only around 10% of total global emissions attributed to individual consumption.”

In sharp contrast, “around 50% of these emissions meanwhile can be attributed to the richest 10% of people around the world, who have average carbon footprints 11 times as high as the poorest half of the population, and 60 times as high as the poorest 10%,” and the “average footprint of the richest 1% of people globally could be 175 times that of the poorest 10%.”

<<https://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/file_attachments/mb-extreme-carbon-inequality-021215-en.pdf>>

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“Full of recent references and statistics, Harvesting the Biosphere adds to the growing chorus of warnings about the current trajectory of human activity on a finite planet, of which climate change is only one dimension.

“One can quibble with some assumptions or tweak Smil’s calculations, but the bottom line will not change, only the time it may take humanity to reach a crisis point.”

Stephen Running. “Approaching the Limits” Science 15 March 2013.

Book review. Harvesting the Biosphere: What we have taken from Nature. by Vaclav Smil .  MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2012. 315 pp. $29, £19.95. ISBN 9780262018562.

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