the US government had published a five-hundred-page draft environmental impact statement, intended to justify its freezing of fuel efficiency controls. Embedded in the statement was an acknowledgment that, based on current climate trends, average global temperatures were likely to increase by four degrees Celsius by the end of this century, an increase widely understood as disastrous by climate scientists. The statement’s position, though, was not that something needed to be done about this, but rather that regulating emissions for new cars was an essentially frivolous exercise, given that a
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