But I Don't Want To Change!

Submitted by Monica Rober on Thu, 11/19/2009 - 4:59pm.

Dan Esty, the head of Yale's Center for Environmental Law and Policy, speaks about coal, gas and oil companies' reluctance to adapt in the face of climate change issues on American Public Media's Marketplace.

"He says the gas, coal and oil industries see their economic survival at stake and have spent big bucks to defend their dominance.
DAN ESTY: 'And they've done it in a variety of ways, traditional lobbying, creating kind of a false impression of lack of clarity around the science, and they've done it the old-fashioned way, with big campaign contributions.'"

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It's terrible how the

It's terrible how the companies don't want to embrace change when global warming is upon us.

Submitted by Adam Lyons (not verified) on Sun, 07/04/2010 - 5:32am.

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yes

I think it's important also to trace back to those companies a lot of studies being people NOT accepting global warming...

Submitted by waterproof cast (not verified) on Fri, 03/26/2010 - 6:16pm.

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of course

Of course they wont want to adapt or will deny the changes, its against their business :P

Submitted by water softener salt (not verified) on Fri, 03/26/2010 - 12:46am.

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preserve the nature, go

preserve the nature, go green...
take the money from the conventional industry and invest them in high technologies - informatics, biotechnology, bioinformatics, renewabe energy, nanotechnology...

Submitted by bioinformatics software (not verified) on Mon, 03/22/2010 - 3:44pm.

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Love it

California needs to drop off the map. Taxes + government = 2012.

Submitted by zara online (not verified) on Mon, 03/08/2010 - 8:20am.

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i love canada

i remember when i was 18, i went to canada and i still remember that some law are different from others

Submitted by web optimization (not verified) on Mon, 01/25/2010 - 10:22am.

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I kind of agree

I kind of agree but at the same time I think Canada was way better. I used to live there.

Submitted by Simulation pret personnel (not verified) on Mon, 01/25/2010 - 12:25am.

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I agree

thats true Canada was way better. I still live there ;)

Submitted by App. (not verified) on Thu, 04/29/2010 - 8:28am.

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Californian laws are too

Californian laws are too harsh in my opinion. Requiring utilities to get 33% of their electricity from renewable energy by 2020 is not realistic.

Submitted by Serie A (not verified) on Thu, 01/21/2010 - 1:50pm.

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California is out of

California is out of control, its almost like living in another country. The government of California is coming up of new ways to tax the population to death.

Submitted by california motorcyle insurance (not verified) on Tue, 03/30/2010 - 7:20pm.

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