Keystone XL vs. Green New Deal

Keystone XL vs. Green New Deal
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Julia Trigg Crawford stands on a road in front of a neighboring property to her family farm where work by TransCanada continues on a oil pipeline Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012, in Sumner, Texas. Oil has long lived in harmony with farmland and cattle across the Texas landscape, a symbiosis nurtured by generations and built on an unspoken honor code that allowed agriculture to thrive while oil was extracted. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
Julia Trigg Crawford stands on a road in front of a neighboring property to her family farm where work by TransCanada continues on a oil pipeline Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012, in Sumner, Texas. Oil has long lived in harmony with farmland and cattle across the Texas landscape, a symbiosis nurtured by generations and built on an unspoken honor code that allowed agriculture to thrive while oil was extracted. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

Bill McKibben calls it the fuse to the biggest carbon bomb on the planet. James Hanson says that if tapped, the Tar Sands spell game over for any hope of achieving a stable climate -- meaning we will exponentially increase the speed with which we create an uninhabitable earth.

Reality check: One of the most important struggles in Obama's second term will be to stop the construction of Keystone XL.

One alternative is the institution of the Robin Hood tax to finance (among other things) turning our roads into solar panels.

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