{"id":5676,"date":"2015-02-13T07:53:23","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T12:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5676"},"modified":"2015-02-13T07:53:23","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T12:53:23","slug":"why-the-gops-vision-of-north-americas-energy-future-should-scare-all-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5676","title":{"rendered":"Why the GOP’s Vision of North America’s Energy Future Should Scare All of Us"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Why the GOP’s Vision of North America’s Energy Future Should Scare All of Us<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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It will be a nightmare of environmental degradation and global conflict.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

It\u2019s a ritual long familiar to observers of American politics: presidential hopefuls with limited international experience travel to foreign lands and deliver speeches designed to showcase their grasp of foreign affairs. Typically, such escapades involve trips to major European capitals or active war zones like Iraq and Afghanistan. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, however, has broken this mold. Before his recent jaunt to London and into the\u00a0thickets<\/a>\u00a0of American vaccination politics, he chose two surprising destinations for his first trips abroad as a potential Republican candidate.\u00a0 No, not Kabul or Baghdad or even Paris, but\u00a0Mexico City<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Alberta<\/a>, Canada.\u00a0 And rather than launch into discussions of immigration, terrorism, or the other usual Republican foreign policy topics, he focused on his own top priority: integrating Canada and Mexico into a U.S.-led \u201cNorth American energy renaissance.\u201d<\/p>\n

By accelerating the exploitation of fossil fuels across the continent, reducing governmental oversight of drilling operations in all three countries, and building more cross-border pipelines like the Keystone XL, Christie\u00a0explained<\/a>, all three countries would be guaranteed dramatic economic growth.\u00a0 \u201cIn North America, we have resources waiting to be tapped,\u201d he assured business leaders in Mexico City.\u00a0 \u201cWhat is required is the vision to maximize our growth, the political will to unlock our potential, and the understanding that working together on strategic priorities… is the path to a better life.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Why the GOP’s Vision of North America’s Energy Future Should Scare All of Us It will be a nightmare of environmental degradation and global conflict. It\u2019s a ritual long familiar to observers of American politics: presidential hopefuls with limited international experience travel to foreign lands and deliver speeches designed to showcase their grasp of foreign […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5],"tags":[103,263,3518,324,3321,468,517,1164,827,862],"class_list":["post-5676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","category-geopolitics","tag-canada","tag-energy","tag-environmental-degradation","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-global-conflict","tag-keystone-xl","tag-mexico","tag-north-america","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5677,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5676\/revisions\/5677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}