{"id":7039,"date":"2011-09-09T09:20:20","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T13:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=7039"},"modified":"2011-09-09T09:20:20","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T13:20:20","slug":"climate-movement-not-ready-for-primetime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=7039","title":{"rendered":"Climate Movement is Not Ready for Primetime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> 
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<a href="https://prosthodontistlasvegas.com/financing-options/">https://prosthodontistlasvegas.com/financing-options/</a> I keep meaning to write something about the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tarsandsaction.org\/\">Tar Sands Action<\/a>\u00a0protests that had been going on by the White House and then I keep forgetting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 
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<a href="https://www.randwickpsychologycentre.com/specialisation/">Order Tramadol Online</a> Yglesias goes on to explain why&#8217;s he not wowed by the civil disobedience element of the protest. (<a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/romm\/2011\/09\/07\/313522\/mckibben-what-comes-next-for-tar-sands-action\/\" target=\"_blank\">Others<\/a> were more impressed, understandably so.) His headline reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
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<a href="https://rgprincipal.com/contact-colombia/"></a> That&#8217;s another way of saying, <em>The Climate Movement Has a Long Way to Go<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p> 
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<a href="http://masterfacilitator.com/doodles4leaders/"></a> Oh, well. What will be interesting to see going forward is if McKibben and company can build on their modest achievement and turn the climate movement into something that has more bite than bark.<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://worklivelaos.com/atms/">https://worklivelaos.com/atms/</a> **For some larger context on the proposed pipeline that is the object of ire, see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ecocentric.blogs.time.com\/2011\/08\/22\/standing-against-oil-sands\"\u201dand-standing-for-the-climate\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0(Bryan Walsh),\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cfr.org\/levi\/2011\/09\/01\/separating-fact-from-fiction-on-keystone-xl\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0(Michael Levi), and <a href=\"http:\/\/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/09\/08\/more-on-tar-oil-pipelines-and-presidents\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> (Andy Revkin).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 
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