Actual sentence from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: "Climate change already has us by the throat, but we can still choose to make the economic sacrifices that are required to keep our planet from overheating"

Your money or your life? | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

In
short, our lives are at stake. That should make protecting the
environment a no brainer, even if it requires a financial sacrifice. Yet
most Americans don't see it that way.
...
The existential
threats that we face today, unlike my mugging, are not blows from out of
the blue. Climate change already has us by the throat, but we can still
choose to make the economic sacrifices that are required to keep our
planet from overheating. Or we can hold tightly to our money and suffer
the consequences.