The oil and gas industry — left to its own devices — will mindlessly follow its own nature. It will make tons of money. It will corrode and corrupt a… - Rachel Maddow

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The oil and gas industry — left to its own devices — will mindlessly follow its own nature. It will make tons of money. It will corrode and corrupt and sabotage democratic governance. It will screw up and — in the end — fatally injure the whole freaking planet. And yes, it will also provide oil and gas along the way! And jobs for the workers who produce those things for it. The end-times battle that we’re engaged in now is to figure out how to get along without oil and gas — and we’re plugging away but still a ways off from that — and, in the meantime, commit to a whole new level of constraint and regulatory protection against this singularly destructive industry to minimize its potential harms.