It Isn't Morning in America Anymore -- It's Dusk on Planet Earth - Part 2


	It Isn't Morning in America Anymore -- It's Dusk on Planet Earth - Part 2

JICWyllie

5-12-2008 6:45 AM

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energy, oil, tar sands, i-consequences, environment, forests, trees, i-disease, i-increase, i-record

JICWyllie says:

By 2010, the tar sands will be emitting as much CO2 as all the cars in Canada, while actively destroying the precious forest, which is turned into methane as the vegetation rots.

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