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In deciding whether to be green, should I consider costs and benefits or just benefits?

For example, it’s a foregone conclustion that most recycling incurs a lot more cost than it provides a benefit. And if the U.S. were to follow the Kyoto accord, it would spend untold billions to make a statistically insignificant change in global temperature. Should I consider costs when deciding whether to be green, or does politicial correctness and green hysteria require me to consider only the benefits?