Keystone XL Pipeline - Bad For the Environment AND Economy

It's not only an environmental issue. It is the wrong way to invest in and develop the economy.

It would produce unsustainable jobs that kill the planet and the people.

It reinforces our addiction to oil. It does not substantially address the petro-dollar/petro dictator/terrorist foreign policy/international security issue.

Alternatively, take the same money, invest it in solar capacity, or wind, you jump start a sustainable industry, help bring the industry to scale and reduce price, create long-term durable jobs and economic  production capacity, AND REDUCE oil consumption and petro dollars to pertro terrorism, thereby improving security.

Keep using ecological constraints to drive economic innovation and you'll eliminate the environmental impacts and security issues, and build a stronger, more prosperous, and resilient economy.

Isn't this a no-brainer? Sound simplistic? The devil is always in the details, but the fundamentally different directions of these two options combined with the accelerating trends and urgency of the sustainability challenge make the choice simple. Without getting into the details of building the sustainable economy, it will never happen, and that is not a result with which anyone can live.

For the full voluntary and profitable program to wean the U.S. from fossil fuels by 2050, see the Rocky Mountain Institute's new program, Reinventing Fire. The Keystone Pipeline is not necessary, would prolong our oil addiction, and would accelerate our system-crashing business-as-usual scenario and retard progress towards a regenerative economy.