I always like to reverse this. "Oh no, in our mad quest to save freshwater fish from extinction, we foolishly did not eliminate all the groundwater. What were w

I always like to reverse this. "Oh no, in our mad quest to save freshwater fish from extinction, we foolishly did not eliminate all the groundwater. What were we thinking?" Same thing works with climate change. "Oh no, scientists tricked us into not pouring massive quantities of pollution into the atmosphere, all for nothing!" We can debate the exact impact of the impact of removing water from an area or pouring chemicals into the water and air and ground, but if we conservatively guess that doing these things is marginally bad, what's the penalty? Slightly slower economic growth?