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Federal law requires the EPA to prove that the cost of removing a contaminant doesn’t exceed its benefits (deaths averted, that is, with a human life valued at $6.1 million).

the fraction of the world’s cereals (currently one-third) being fed to livestock, an inefficient use of grain. Animals turn only about 10-45 percent of grain inputs into meat—5 percent or less in some cases.

Two prominent examples illustrate this unfolding material dependence. No structures are more obvious symbols of “green” electricity generation than large wind turbines—but these enormous accumulations of steel, cement, and plastics are also embodiments of fossil fuels.[107] Their foundations are reinforced concrete, their towers, nacelles, and roto