[Ads-l] Preliminary Appeal for Notable Quotations of 2022

[Shapiro, Fred]

Yes, this is a very provocative and notable quote, but note that at least a reasonable amount of pithiness is essential to make my list, I'm never going to include a very long quote.

Fred Shapiro



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Subject: Re: Preliminary Appeal for Notable Quotations of 2022

This quote seems outstandingly notable to me:

Prof Myles Allen, at the University of Oxford, said: “The combined
profits, taxes and royalties generated by the oil and gas industry over
the past few months would be enough to capture every single molecule of
CO2 produced by their activities and reinject it back underground. So
why are we only talking about transforming society and not about
obliging a highly profitable industry to clean up the mess caused by the
products it sells?”

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