February 28, 2013

Lessons for Bill McKibben's Keystone Nuts

Ralph Nader, CounterPunch


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Bill McKibben, a prolific writer and organizer on global warming and climate change, has had a busy year teaching environmentalists not to despair and will soon be learning some lessons himself. . .

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