Thought exercise: what if all the effort, ingenuity, passion and $$ spent on fighting fracking and pipelines were spent instead on persuading people to accept a significant gas/carbon tax, or similar measures? (“significant” = a lot more than 12 cents)https://twitter.com/rcollier/status/936468620690853889 …
That isn't how social activism works. Folks fear their water will be poisoned by oil in North Dakota by ruthless corporations so they resist. It isn't a global calculus, it is on the ground & local like 95% of politics, though of course we pretend #DC is most important etc.