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Maybe we don't have it in us to live clean enough in a high enough population density. But I still do what I can. I live on the coast in a smaller town bordered by redwoods and the ocean, so I don't really feel the effects on air quality from the local industry, plants, or cars , unless it is a diesel that just drove by. The ocean breeze sweeps whatever we put out inland, unlike LA where they have a trapped pocket of air above them and so whatever they put out they have to breathe or rains back down on them.
Interestingly enough, in the SF Bay area most of our smog originates from across the Pacific and is blown over by weather patterns. The only time I notice the air quality is after coming back from a trip to the mountians. But it does make a point that what we do does affect other people, even if it is all the way across the Pacific. Canada has a similar problem with our polution that is created in the North East.
I can understand your perspective though. In a small town where the effects from everyone in it just disappear, except for the landfill of course, it would be hard not to think that environmentalists are overreacting. But from one who lives in an area that is affected by people from so far away, and to see other cities that have such horrible problems due to lack of regulation, I see a real and present need for it. And I would hope that you could see it through to not ridicule those who see a need for it as well.
Well, at least on the brickboard because believe it or not, I hate talking politics even though I can't help myself when exposed to it.
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