Will say re the Clean Air Act, for those of us aware then, the smog in LA was terrible, the river/lake in Cleveland caught fire, people tossed trash everywhere and corporations dumped chemicals wherever they landed including creeks and rivers. It was time to change all of that.
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Agree totally. I’m younger than a lot of people who post here but I still remember when almost every sunrise and sunset were red or orange from pervasive smog. I swam in those rivers and lakes, and survived, but that doesn’t mean I think they should be polluted.
A lot of people seem to think that conservatives are anti-environment. That couldn’t be farther from the truth. I have a powerful appreciation for nature. I would make the case that the word conservative is very close to conservation.
I just don’t buy into the myth that carbon dioxide is a significant greenhouse gas.
Plants/trees need CO2, they make oxygen. Very simple.
Carbon dioxide is a green gas. It promotes plant growth in a serious way. There is an argument that we were getting down towards carbon death of the Earth’s ecosystem due to *low* CO2 levels.