Are you really trying to say that pollution is good? I'm not so concerned with global warming as I am with clean air to breathe. You have to wonder when kids born in urban areas are more likely to develop asthma.
Whether the ideas come from wackos or not, clean air and alternative fuels SHOULD be what we work towards. Constant turmoil in the Middle East and breathable air is a good enough reason for me.
What is the downside of lowering pollution and seeking alternative fuels?
2 things to consider:
1. we insulate buildings now like nobodies business. There's a term for it "Unhealthy Building Syndrome".
2. the doctors are 'looking for asthma' like never before. A few years ago when my niece & nephew were in pre-school there was a rash of "ear tubes" to prevent chronic ear infections. In my day it was tonciles.
Never underestimate societies ability to tie itself in knots.
Kids go outside? Funny I don't see many.
Maybe they're getting asthma from plopping their butts down in front of the playstation and never going outside? Meanwhile we've made our houses so airtight that there is no air exchange. So your breathing dust mites, dead skin cells ground up dog feces that you stepped in on the way to the bus that is now ground in your carpet.
Yeah! Right on Dude! Conservatives LOVE dirty air and smile gleefully as they burn jugs of PCBs in their back yard.
Get real? Would ya? When I was a kid I was outside all of the time barefoot in the grass. I would come inside at night and it would look like I had black socks on from the particulates on the grass. USA has taken the lead in cleaning up their pollution. It's time for the rest of the world to do the same and don't look to us to pay for it.
One type of song that has come into increasing prominence in recent months is the folk-song of protest. You have to admire people who sing these songs. It takes a certain amount of courage to get up in a coffee-house or a college auditorium and come out in favor of the things that everybody else in the audience is against like peace and justice and brotherhood and so on.Do you actually think I'm for pollution? That my comments lead you to consider that absurdity should make you consider that maybe I'm trying to say something else that you haven't considered - and which may make sense.
I'm saying that what's happening is not necessarily and automatically as evil as many presume - that perhaps things don't work the way you are presuming based on a cursory glance.
Certainly dumping garbage in the air is generally not good. Duh.
Like other things that have unintended consequences, it has been observed that due to air pollution, the amount of sunlight hitting the Earth's surface has decreased, with more being reflected than ususal. Oddly, this may actually have the side effect of cooling, and thus counteracting the natural global warming process (which, as has been often observed, is natural and periodic, occuring whether or not Man exists or not).
Perhaps you might consider for a moment that Man's contribution to global warming is actually to reduce it.
Additionally, all that extra CO2 Gore et al have been freaking over is plant food. Between that and less ice, we should see an increase in plant, and by extention animal, life. Longer growing seasons, greenhouse conditions (notice that life thrives in a greenhouse), prolific growth - that's good, right?
Upshot: there are ways of looking at these issues which reveal results beyond the politically correct "it's all bad" mantras.
Of course, you'll read the above and just conclude I'm evil and/or stupid.