The target companies dutifully add a few words to the proxy and hand the lawyers enough money to piss off, which they gladly do since actually litigating a case involves work and some legal talent.

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It's impossible to add up all the indirect environmental costs of a windmill, but a good proxy for this arithmetic is simply to compare the resources consumed (in dollars) with the output produced (in dollar value of the electricity).

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