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<div>"<font face="Georgia">As early as 1977, one of Exxon's
senior scientists warned a gathering of oilmen of a 'general
scientific agreement' that the burning of fossil fuels was influencing
the climate. A year later, he had updated his assessment, warning that
'present thinking holds that man has a time window of five to 10 years
before the need for hard decisions regarding changes in energy
strategies might become critical.'"</font></div>
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<div><font face="Georgia">"In the 1980s, Exxon scientists
collaborated with academic and government researchers to build climate
models and understand their implications. When one researcher
expressed the opinion that the impacts would be 'well short of
catastrophic,' the director of the Theoretical and Mathematical
Sciences Laboratory at Exxon Research responded in a memo, 'I think
that this statement may be too reassuring.' He said it was 'distinctly
possible' that the projected warming trend after 2030 'will indeed be
catastrophic (at least for a substantial fraction of the earth's
population),' a conclusion that most climate scientists now hold,
assuming we continue business as usual."</font></div>
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<div><font face="Georgia">Full report here:</font></div>
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</font><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000">"Š energy
consumption in 1960 was about half what it is now [i.e., 1970] Š.
Surely we had a civilized country then, with roads, electricity,
entertainment, and so on. Š. Have we, by doubling our energy
consumption, doubled our happiness?"<br>
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Kimon Valaskakis, Peter S. Sindell, J. Graham Smith, and Iris
Fitzpatrick-Martin.<i> The Conserver Society.</i> 1970. Harper &
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<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000">"We have only one
planet and the time has come to transform our present lifestyle and
consumption patterns in order to halt the degradation of the Earth's
natural capital ..."<br>
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From the Executive Summary, WWF: <i> China Ecological Footprint:
Report 2012 : Consumption, production, and
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