Posted by: JaredFurtado on Oct 6, 2011

With the Keystone Pipeline, Drawing a Line in the Tar Sands
by Bill Mckibben

In the last three years, three things have happened to the climate movement, one political, one meteorological, and one geological.
Taken together, they explain why 1,253 people were arrested outside the White House in late summer protesting the Keystone XL pipeline — and why that protest may be the start of something big and desperate.


Here’s the political thing: When Barack Obama was elected, he carried with him the hopes of people the world around that something might finally happen to break the 20-year stalemate that had prevented meaningful action on global warming. That hope was perhaps always excessive — but then, the man himself had done all that he could to encourage it. On the night he clinched the nomination he said that during his presidency “the rise of the oceans will begin to slow and the planet begin to heal.” Waiting for a messiah, we managed to convince

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