{"id":904,"date":"2011-11-22T11:18:46","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T16:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alexprudhomme.com\/?p=904"},"modified":"2011-11-22T11:18:46","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T16:18:46","slug":"how-mckibben-got-his-groove-on-for-keystone-xl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexprudhomme.com\/2011\/11\/22\/how-mckibben-got-his-groove-on-for-keystone-xl\/","title":{"rendered":"How McKibben got his groove on for Keystone XL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frederick Douglass: \u201cPower concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.\u201d<br \/>\nLast spring, months before Wall Street was Occupied, civil disobedience of the kind sweeping the Arab world was hard to imagine happening here. But at Middlebury College, in Vermont, Bill McKibben, a scholar-in-residence, was leading a class discussion about Taylor Branch\u2019s trilogy on Martin Luther King, Jr., and he began to wonder if the tactics that had won the civil-rights battle could work in this country again. McKibben, who is an author and an environmental activist (and a former\u00a0<em>New Yorker<\/em>\u00a0staff writer), had been alarmed by a conversation he had had about the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline with James Hansen, the head of\u00a0<small>NASA<\/small>\u2019s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and one of the country\u2019s foremost climate scientists. If the pipeline was built, it would hasten the extraction of exceptionally dirty crude oil, using huge amounts of water and heat, from the tar sands of Alberta, Canada, which would then be piped across the United States, where it would be refined and burned as fuel, releasing a vast new volume of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere. \u201cWhat would the effect be on the climate?\u201d McKibben asked. Hansen replied, \u201cEssentially, it\u2019s game over for the planet.\u201d<br \/>\nRead more\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/talk\/comment\/2011\/11\/28\/111128taco_talk_mayer#ixzz1eS3iZ8C2\">https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/talk\/comment\/2011\/11\/28\/111128taco_talk_mayer#ixzz1eS3iZ8C2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frederick Douglass: \u201cPower concedes nothing without a demand. 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