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By Keith Kloor
Mar 11, 2011 4:10 AMNov 20, 2019 2:18 AM

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A plea:

If those who worry about what would happen if we burned all the fossil fuels and those who worry that we will blow ourselves up deciding a "˜fair and equitable' distribution of those resources could just sit down and agree that burning fossil fuels is a problem, then maybe, just maybe a solution might emerge. But alas, we are locked into some foolish struggle over having to agree on why burning fossil fuels might be a problem.

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