The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.
Jeff GoodellAlthough most Americans don't know it, the U.S. gets more oil from Canada than it does from the entire Middle East.
Jeff GoodellClimate scientists have long pointed to the Southwest as one of the places in the U.S. that is most vulnerable to global warming impacts, especially drought. And if there's one thing that even climate denialists don't dispute, dry things burn.
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