* More than four of every five poll respondents said that our cities are getting dirtier.
Twenty-five years ago, the Cuyahoga river would burn and Lake Erie was virtually dead. Now, they are both much cleaner.
30 years ago, I remember my grandmother sweeping soot off her front walk every day. Soon after, they installed scrubbers on the foundry chimneys and the soot disappeared.
Cars are much cleaner, the air is cleaner, rivers are cleaner, there are more wild animals.
Environmentalists should celebrate the successes of the past 40 years, yet they continue to preach gloom and doom.
Maybe they're confusing traditional forms of pollution with the increased numbers of homeless people defecating on the sidewalks and "camping" in the parks.
Cars are much cleaner, the air is cleaner, rivers are cleaner, there are more wild animals.
There were times 30 years ago that smog was so thick on the Riverside Freeway (SoCal) that I literally could not read the overhead signage until right on top of an exit.
40 years ago, my eyes ran, my throat burned, my lungs ached, and I coughed my guts out walking to the San Francisco Muni station from work, during rush hour.