“Ethical Oil” is Not an Oxymoron » No Unsacred Place

In my latest post over on No Unsacred Place, I follow up on John’s recent coverage of the controversial Keystone XL Pipeline with a video from the Tar Sands Action protests in Washington D.C. this past weekend, where activists, environmentalists and ordinary citizens gathered to demonstrate their opposition to the proposed pipeline. Naomi Klein speaks on the manipulative corporate ad campaign to rebrand the Tar Sands as “Ethical oil”:

I’m from Canada, and let me tell you something. We don’t have ‘ethical oil’ in Canada. We have Tar Sands oil, which is like regular oil, but a whole lot dirtier. It ravages the earth as it is extracted. Ravaging bodies, ravaging the land as you just heard from our brothers and sisters from the Indigenous Environmental Network. And it ravages the earth at the point of combustion. When all of that carbon, three times as much carbon, three times as much greenhouse gas is emitted as it takes to produce a regular barrel of crude.

Meanwhile, Margaret Swedish asks how we hold on to hope in the face of on-going environmental destruction, natural disasters, political pandering and public ignorance and denial. Does the idea of hope still make sense? How do we share it with others?

You can read the full article here.