Keystone XL: Ending the Combustapalooza!

In a textbook example of irony, the United States and Canada are considering doing, at the same time, two nonsensically opposite things:

1) Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions through substantial effort and expense
2) Cancel those reductions, and worse, by radically increasing carbon exports via the Keystone XL Pipeline and other schemes

Concerned people have raised many issues, ranging in scale from local to global. There truly is no daylight between local, state, regional, national, and global impacts of massive proposed carbon export schemes.

Looking at the mosaic of all of the concerns, a pervasive pattern emerges.  People are asking hard questions about a plan that is based on a commitment to continue and even expand the Combustapalooza for decades into the future.

The Combustapalooza is the civilization-wide frenzy of digging up or cutting down everything in sight, and then lighting it on fire. The combustapalooza has been accelerating for decades, and in recent years the gas pedal has been pushed all the way to the floor.

The combustapalooza, at least as we know it, is going to end.  The only question is whether it will end somewhat gracefully, or very, very badly.

You mission, should you choose to accept it: Comment on whether the Keystone XL Pipeline is in our national interest.

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