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The True Cost of Oil

Categories: Energy, Humans & Nature, TED Talks, Transportation

Photographer Garth Lenz uses his images of beauty and devastation to take us inside the most damaging fossil fuel extraction operation on Earth: mining in the Alberta Tar Sands. The tar sands represent a net loss of energy. With high oil prices though, it’s profitable to burn more oil than you produce, pollute the land and water, and call it job creation.