Subject: Unburnable Carbon and other news from Dan Lashof, NextGen Climate America
From: Daniel Lashof <[email-masked]>
To: Lauren Terrazas <[email-masked]>
Cc: Daniel Lashof <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 01:11:32 +0000

If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. And don't dig new ones. And don't build pipelines to carry the stuff you shouldn't dig up.

Climate hawks have been working on two largely disconnected, but mutually reinforcing projects: reducing demand for fossil fuels and bottling up supply. A new analysis published last week in the scientific journal Nature connects the dots. My blog this week gives the upshot:

https://nextgenamerica.org/climate-change/best-way-to-stop-global-warming-keep-fossil-fuels-in-the-ground/

Instead of trying to extract fossil fuels from every nook and cranny of the earth, let's invest in our clean energy future. Tom Steyer makes the case:

https://nextgenclimate.org/climatechange/jobs-for-the-next-generation/

If the leaders of the 114th Congress are interested in creating jobs they have plenty of good options. Here are 9 clean energy policies that trump Keystone XL:

https://nextgenclimate.org/keystone/9-job-creating-clean-energy-policies-that-trump-keystone-xl/

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