04/27/1961
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"So if we liquefy natural gas and we sell it to a country at a reasonable price that, let's say, for example, uses coal, isn't the world better off in terms of the environment?"
"Don't you think for a fraction of the cost we ought to try to clean up what we have now?"
"It's because we've given up all our authority to you guys."
"Well, and in the last decade, the United States has reduced its CO2 emissions and in the last decade, China, for example, which emits more CO2 than any other country in the history of ever, has increa..."