If I had to name two dumb things we do world wide one would be cutting down the rain forests in South America,that is stupid and China polluting themselves into oblivion. Other than that pollution has been going the other way for years.The hard left must worry about the trend since if the it keeps up they will have little to argue about.
Even in my industry we come out with non polluting natural gas powered outboard motors.
Now, if we could just get them to run on an extract of aquatic compost.
Oh wait....we already do that.
India is another big polluter; and, as I understand it, neither China nor India would sign on to or be affected by whatever carbon and GW regulations were put into practice world wide. Though apparently Sect’y John F. Kerry (he served in Vietnam you know) was just speaking with China about same this past week, so who knows, maybe China will change and Kerry will get a prestigious Nobel Award.
One other dumb thing - the environmental wackos have forbidden clearing any dead growth from forests for years, which makes those forests tinder boxes (as we’ve seen with all the forest fires in the west over the years). I think a lot of these regs have been put in by the “(not so) wise ones” on the east coast that have never visited an old growth forest in the western US. Just think of how many toads, slugs, special beetles, White Spotted Owls, etc. (not to mention homes and businesses) they could save if they would allow the deadwood to be cleared.