"A major environmental issue is the question of lowering carbon dioxide emissions to ameliorate the greenhouse effect.
Those who profit from foul air and a poisoned atmosphere will profess to worry about more expensive automobiles. But I see no percentage in gloating over a few hundred dollars saved while dying of lung cancer and emphysema, and while the Earth warms, the ice caps melt and the coastal regions drown."
-Isaac Asimov, 1990
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