Re: Things aren't as bad as most people think
Posted: Mon 09 Sep 2019, 22:14:01
Regarding clean air regulations, they were a freak of the political climate coming out of the hippie 1960s. In Canada, the legislation has not been updated since it was passed in the early 1970s. The same was basically the case for the USA. Both the "left" and the "right" have become whores to big business and treat the clowns who think nothing of dumping carcinogens, teratogens and mutagens into the environment as sacred cows. Trump thinks that if he removes toxics regulations, then he will stimulate US industry. Such thinking is vapid. It is always cheaper and easier to follow the path of least resistance (e.g. apply some chemical processing pathway that produces toxins) than to figure out how to do it cleanly. As is evident from the utter lack of regulation of new toxic pollutants it will take decades for any fallout to bite the polluter.
BTW, listen to all the "regulators" chirp about how NOx and O3 are going down and patting themselves on the back for this "achievement". These clowns need to be laughed at. Real health damaging pollution has not decreased and we now have a cancer pandemic where people have a 50% chance of getting it and 33% chance of dying from it. And this has nothing to do with BS claims that people are living longer. The average life expectancy change with time is not correlated with the increasing cancer incidence. Cancer is not just some elderly disease.
BTW, listen to all the "regulators" chirp about how NOx and O3 are going down and patting themselves on the back for this "achievement". These clowns need to be laughed at. Real health damaging pollution has not decreased and we now have a cancer pandemic where people have a 50% chance of getting it and 33% chance of dying from it. And this has nothing to do with BS claims that people are living longer. The average life expectancy change with time is not correlated with the increasing cancer incidence. Cancer is not just some elderly disease.