February 25, 2013

Kicking Big Oil Off Campus

Bill McKibben, Rolling Stone


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It's obvious how this should end. You've got the richest industry on earth, fossil fuel, up against some college kids, some professors, a few environmentalists, a few brave scientists. . .

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