(2011/05/30) Dumb as the fossils we burn (Energy and climate)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 30 May 2011
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Edition #492
Dumb as the fossils we burn
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Act 1: Rocks - Mark Fiore
Song 1: Sanitarium (Welcome Home) - Apocalyptica
Act 2: Fracking linked to well contamination - Green News Report
Act 3: Watch It, Gas Hole - Thom Hartmann
Song 3: Home - Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
Act 4: Nuclear and the climate - Le Show
Song 4: As Long As the Grass Grows - Randy Wood
Act 5: Island's Recovery May Set Example For Gulf Residents - NPR
Song 5: Dudeman - Viktor Krauss
Act 6: Exxon Paleontologists Call For Increased U.S. Fossil Production - The Onion
Song 6: La Paix - Amadou & Mariam
Act 7: 2011 sets weird weather record - Green News Report
Song 7: Knock yourself out - Jon Brion
Act 8: Mark Moffett - Colbert Report
Song 8: Mexico - James Taylor
Act 9: Safe, clean, too cheap to meter - Le Show
Song 9: Go sadness - Shout Out Louds
Act 10: More weird weather, new records set - Green News Report
Voicemails:
Thoughts on the future of climate change - Dominic from Castle Rock, Colorado
Responding on federal funding of Planned Parenthood - Patrick from Dallas
Details on government reimbursements for non-profits - Shane from Cleveland, OH
Voicemail Music:
Turtle (Bonobo Remix) - Pilote
Ghostwriter - Rjd2
Final comments on Stitcher.com and DonateYourAccount.com
Bonus Voicemail:
Deeper understanding reaction to Bin Laden - Andrew from NY
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
How green is my country? - Need to Know
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors of the show. |
| 0:05.0 | For details, visit the membership tab at bestofleft.com. |
| 0:08.0 | Now, welcome to the award-winning Best of Left Podcasts with clips today from MarkFurray.com, |
| 0:13.1 | the Green News Report, the Tom Hartman Show, La Show, NPR, The Onion Radio News, and |
| 0:18.7 | the Colbert Report with a bonus clip for our Apple iOS and Android app users from Need |
| 0:23.8 | to Know. |
| 0:53.8 | So, who does the work now? |
| 1:03.8 | Well, big machines and a lot fewer workers, that's for sure. |
| 1:07.8 | Those machines look expensive. |
| 1:09.8 | Yeah, but there are plenty of banks to help coal companies buy them, and politicians |
| 1:14.8 | to clear the way for them to blow up more mountains. |
| 1:16.8 | Where do the mountains go? |
| 1:18.8 | Into the valleys? |
| 1:19.8 | But isn't that where the workers live and go fishing in the streams and stuff? |
| 1:23.8 | Yeah, but the coal miners don't really need to live there anymore, do they? |
| 1:27.8 | And you sure don't want to eat the fish? |
| 1:29.8 | For plus, you'd be under tons of toxic rock if you stuck around or flooded out if you were nearby. |
| 1:34.8 | Why don't you even need the coal? |
| 1:37.8 | Because it makes energy, which makes life, that much more enjoyable. |
| 1:42.8 | You humans are dumb or them rocks. |
| 1:46.8 | From our What the Frack file, a new scientific study for the first time definitively links the |
| 2:07.8 | controversial natural gas drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing or fracking to |
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