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Hurricane Sandy, and the superstorms that will certainly follow, are not just acts of nature—they are products of a massive theft of the atmospheric commons shared by all life on the planet. Every dollar of profit made by fossil fuel companies relies on polluting our shared atmosphere with harmful greenhouse gases—stealing what belongs to us all.

Tim Swineheart tells how the rich turned nature into a commodity against the will of everyone else, “Stealing and Selling Nature.” (via utnereader)