And after three decades of doing nothing, we put in place fuel economy standards that will make sure our cars average nearly 55 miles per gallon by the middle of the next decade.

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"What we are doing in this area at the moment is nothing, " says Russell Howard, chief executive of Maxygen.

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It is only by doing nothing here that we are able to live in these mountains.

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We all get in the run up to general elections hundreds and hundreds of requests to fill in questionnaires, to sign declarations, we could spend our time doing nothing else, a lot of MPs quite honourably take the view, that's it, they, they just don't engage in that.

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"We also had to sit in this small temporary office from about 8am to 5 or 6pm doing nothing, " he said of one job.

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We live in a world, however, where anyone who tries to explain what the science suggests is likely to happen if we keep doing nothing is attacked as an alarmist by conservatives, disinformers, and their enablers in the media.

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We thought we were making sure that they were doing the right thing, and they said all the right things in hearings, and nothing happened.

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Otherwise, we are spending more and more money, talking about all of the problems accept the elephant in the room, and doing nothing about the one thing that would do the most good.

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