Clips: Asimov on Global Warming

"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