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On the recordJanuary 27, 2009
We're going to have to make a choice, in a sense. Maybe the political equivalency or the economic equivalency of wearing a hair shirt if we give up this economic path or dependence on fossil fuels that we've been on for so long.
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Chris Dodd
Democratic · Connecticut

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Dodd discusses the public's fear of economic sacrifice in addressing climate change.

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