“ The costs of what Gore tells us to do would be extremely large,” Dyson said. “By restricting CO2 you make life more expensive and hurt the poor. I’m concerned about the Chinese.” “They’re the biggest polluters,” Imme replied. “They’re also changing their standard of living the most, going from poor to middle class. To me that’s very precious. ”

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