Why do other planets get official protection against pollution, but not Earth?

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By Bill McKibbenSep 30, 2015, 1:13 pm78 pts
This story was originally published by Medium and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration Once, many years ago, I was sitting on an airplane chatting with an agreeable man in the next seat. He worked at NASA, and his job was to make sure that nothing that left Earth on a spacecraft would…

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