Alberta tar sands already account for more carbon emissions than 145 entire nations

[DeathToTheOil]

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2012/01/canadian_tar_sands_is_our_neighbor_to_the_north_becoming_a_jingoistic_petro_state_.html (Opening sentence of sixth paragraph.)

I did not know this particular fact, even though I live only a few hundred klicks south. and

[PDJane]

1. I did.

It's repulsive, and with Harper in charge, this will only get worse. Why do you think he left the Kyoto accord?

[DeathToTheOil]

2. The Toronto Star beat us Both

Four years ago: http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/304135

[PDJane]

3. yes, I know...........

Where do you think I read it?

[DeathToTheOil]

4. Aww, please don't tell me you're a Leafs fan!

You seem so nice.

[PDJane]

11. Me? No. Sports are a PITA.

Never watch, don't care....occasionally took my son to baseball games, until I discovered that he didn't give a rat's pattootie either!

[DeathToTheOil]

12. PITA?

Pain In The Abdomen, right?

[PDJane]

13. Approximately :-)

[JDPriestly]

5. Years ago when I worked for an oil company in the UK,

I read that we would know that oil was running out when they started exploiting tar sands and shale. That was considered at that time to be the sign of the end times for oil.

We are there and doing very little to prepare for the post-oil future.

On edit: I should add that "years ago" means the early 1970s.

[polly7]

6. Yes, my father worked in the oil all his life and said the same thing.

[ellisonz]

7. That's rich.

My Father was a mid-level manager for Atlantic Richfield (ARCO) from the 1960s to the mid-1980s and he has the same opinion.

For all the resources we are putting into exploiting these resources we could be doing simple things like solar panels on houses to reduce demand and making vehicles more efficient.

[polly7]

10. Not so rich, he was a battery operator, the benzene he was

he was exposed to daily is probably what caused his bone marrow disease later in life. Yes, when I think of what we could be doing with all that money we're pissing away ruining our environment, it makes me ill.

[DeathToTheOil]

8. K b4 Logoff

[DeathToTheOil]

9. & 4 Login

I'm trying to expiate my guilt over not having known this by spreading the word, as widely as possible. (My Twitter feed and Facebook page have been similarly updated.)

[woo me with science]

14. Thank you for posting this.

Bookmarking to read.