Posted on 05/09/2002 11:15:46 AM PDT by gopusa.com
If you're like most Americans, you probably think air quality is bad, and that our fondness for SUVs is only going to make things worse. Fed a weekly dose of gloomy media accounts prompted by gloomy reports from environmental groups, it's no surprise that national surveys continue to find Americans are pessimistic on the state of the air. But what may surprise you is that this pessimism is misplaced. Air quality has been improving for more than two decades in most places, and will only get better in the future.
So why haven't environmentalists caught up with reality? Happy endings don't bring in donations, and when the facts don't cooperate, the only way to tell a scary story is by trumping up inflated numbers. State of the Air 2002, a report released last week by the American Lung Association (ALA), is the latest salvo in activists' efforts to mislead us into believing we can't have our cars and drive them too.
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