[KeyLargo]

[rockinqsranch]

BFLR

[Wuli]

There are some parts of action on the environment that have been good, and some that have been just political, just seeking to make political points or exercise political control “on behalf of the environment”.

[G Larry]

Then we can close the EPA and we’ll be even better off.

[cripplecreek]

One of the reasons many find it easy to believe a narrative that the environment is consistently getting worse is, somewhat ironically, due to human technological advances. Analytic devices that used to detect contaminants measured in parts per million are now able to find these materials in parts per billion, or even parts per trillion.

And to the simple, bigger numbers are proof of things being worse.

[bgill]

Not in my neck of the woods. I used to be able to clearly see the nearby hills. In recent years, there’s been a pollution haze.

[rktman]

The typical warmunists/radical left wing ecowacko response. “Nuh uh!”

[immadashell]

The biggest polluters on earth are China and India, both which are inexplicably exempt from most of the economic restraints that the international scientific community wants to impose on the U.S. In 100 years they may (but probably won’t) improve their production facilities and processes to benefit the environment. In the meantime, they are laughing their a**es off and collecting untold wealth from activities denied businesses in this country.

[Reeses]

technology keeps improving at an accelerating pace

Only if there is a big investor class. If government takes wealth away from the investor class to give half to the consumer class and consume half itself, technology advances will cease. Investors create wealth by doing something more efficiently than others, meaning using less energy and making less pollution.

[PJ-Comix]

Pittsburgh is definitely cleaner but Biscayne Bay is not. At least not as clean as it was 100 years ago.

[ransomnote]

3 nuclear melt downs in Fukushima Japan have been dumping radioactive waste into the Pacific since Spring of 2011 and will continue to do so until all the nuclear fuel that has melted through containment and is now “somewhere” underground is washed into the ocean. The legal limit for radiation in food has been adjusted upwards in Japan and, ahem “other nations.”
That NPP nuclear accident that released plutonium in the US that no one needs to talk about now?
That announced nuclear emergency in Europe that has gone radio silent. I suspect if governments didn’t have the power to black out information about their failures, we wouldn’t be bragging about how clean the environment is.

[TruthWillWin]

Cleaner? What about China?

[TruthWillWin]

Cleaner? What about China?