Obama Right To Oppose Keystone Pipeline

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Author(s) Robert M. Thorson
Source The Hartford Courant
Date February 18, 2015
URL http://www.courant.com/opinion/op-ed/hc-op-thorson-keystone-pipeline-obama-veto-0219-20150218-column.html
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Quotes-start.png The link between violence and climate disruption "appears to extend across the world, throughout history, and at all scales of social organization." In pre-history, cultural extinction has been compellingly linked to climate disruptions: Mayan civilization in Mexico, the Angkor kingdom in southeast Asia, dynastic transitions in China, the Akkadian empire in Mesopotamia, and upheavals in Europe. No political leader from those cultures is here to vote against Keystone. Quotes-end.png


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This item argues against the position Pipeline should be built on the topic Keystone XL pipeline.