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I really like Freeman Dyson's take on carbon dioxide:

"The most important fact in the history of the 21st century is that China and India, with about half of the world's population, are getting rich. To get rich in the next 50 years, they must burn prodigious quantities of coal and add big quantities of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. China and India have a simple choice to make. Either they get rich and cause a major increase of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Or they stay poor. I hope they choose to get rich. The choice is theirs and not ours. Whatever we may choose to do will not make much difference. The discussions in Paris will not make much difference. The good news is that the main effect of carbon dioxide on the ecology of the planet has nothing to do with climate. The main effect of carbon dioxide is to make the planet greener, feeding the growth of green plants of all kinds, increasing the fertility of farms and fields and forests."

Source: https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/12/03/freeman-dyson...

Also, I really recommend this Web of Stories interview (actually all of them in the playlist) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=848X64FXGp0&list=PLVV0r6CmEs...