“Incidentally, most of the central CA pollution nodes are due to the natural haze and dust of the area....not industrial production gone mad. If it matters.”
No, it doesn’t. Obviously, more taxes, regulations, and fines are needed.
Maybe it wasn’t a super-great idea to put massive amounts of urban infrastructure in A VALLEY.
I don’t see how you can avoid putting infrastructure in a valley. A lot easier to build there than a mountain side, and a lot closer to the fields and oil that are the source of the wealth and the food. Besides, those who have built infrastructure on neither a valley, nor a mountain, have had their own environmental disasters (dust bowl, anyone?).
We are bodily creatures. Anywhere we live, we leave waste. The question is how best to make the trade-offs to live well.
(And the other thing is to know that we can never roll back the clock or completely unpollute. We look to God for our ultimate clean-up. Our efforts alone will always fall short.)