We've all heard the oil industry and the coal industry and their indentured servants in the political process telling us that global climate stability is a luxury that we can't afford -- that we have to choose now between economic prosperity on the one hand and environmental protection on the other.
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[1] http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/images/blog-feature-1996.jpg
[2] http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?id=6514&method=full