This was the most depressing bit for me: "But they said they'd calculated that the environmental damage from burning the fuel to do that job would be worse tha

This was the most depressing bit for me: "But they said they'd calculated that the environmental damage from burning the fuel to do that job would be worse than just leaving the debris there." I think that's a fairly neat example of a weakness of modern environmentalism: an obsession with CO2 over everything else.