“Forbid selling of cars with an exhaust pipe after 2025….” proposed a Dutch politician
recently in parliament. Ridiculous and far from reality? Wishful thinking versus the
present opinion driven by car and oil industry lobby? Should we vote for a windmill
and solar panel instead of a smoking pipe panorama? What about the effects of a North
Sea windmill horizon on tourism? And do we have time just to debate about these matters?
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Publication history
Published online: November 04, 2016
Accepted:
October 17,
2016
Received:
October 10,
2016
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© 2016 Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of European Federation of Internal Medicine.
