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August 29, 2011

Betting the Farm Against Climate Change

Eugene Linden, Los Angeles Times


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Leon Trotsky is reputed to have quipped, "You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you." Substitute the words "climate change" for "war" and the quote is perfectly suited for the governors of Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico, all of whom have ridiculed or dismissed the threat of climate change even as their states suffer record-breaking heat and drought. . .

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TAGGED: energy subsidies, electrical grid, climate change, Los Angeles Times

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