Posted on 04/21/2020 4:36:43 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Almost half of Americans live in communities with unhealthy levels of air pollution, according to the American Lung Association, as the country continues to grapple with a respiratory virus that has brought more attention to the impact of air pollution on people'shealth.
The American Lung Association's "State of the Air" report found that 150 million Americans -- 45.8% of the population -- live in counties with unhealthy levels of ozone or tiny particle pollution -- essentially soot or smog. The numbers have increased in the past three reports.
"What we're seeing is an actual increase in the number of people breathing unhealthy air in this year's report compared to last year's report. And that is a result, we believe, of climate change. And also lack of enforcement and compliance by the U.S. EPA of the Clean Air Act," said Paul Billings, senior vice president of advocacy for the American Lung Association.
"It shows we can't take clean air for granted and that climate change is making the job of cleaning the air harder and it's putting health burdens on the American people right now," he added.
Catherine Flowers, a field activist in Houston with the advocacy group Moms Clean Air Force, says the concern about air pollution adds another level of anxiety as she watches friends and colleagues impacted by the COVID-19 virus in her home city of New Orleans.
"Climate and air is an environmental justice issue and it's -- it's literally tied to every social ill. I don't think we've had the words before because, again, we've always focused on, you know, the most immediate issues. But the truth is, it's a thread that's woven throughout the cloth of every kind of -- every kind of social service work we do," she said.
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Sums up the platform.
100 years ago....everyone had fireplaces, coal furnaces, lead pipes. They blew SS away by living into their 70s, 80’s and 90’s. My mom was 90. My aunts were all in their 90’s. My dad was 80....and died only because he was miles and miles from a hospital.
Looks like the American Lung Association has started its annual fundraising drive.
And yet no place in the US has air as bad as major cities in the 1950s.
One would think with the low activity level cities haven’t had air this clean in ages.
Another nitwit in the mold of AOC.
What’s happening right now is POLLEN.
One who thinks that is probably correct but that won’t stop the propaganda.
The best way to save America is to eliminate the envirowackos
Could be worse, you could be riding on mass transit.
That was exactly the excerpt I was going to post.
How about morbid obesity, a factor prominent in the coronavirus deaths? End all government food programs for the obese.
Central Texas is pretty bad for that. It really messes up my daughter.
I’ve said since 2005 that this isn’t about the climate. It’s about making the production of CO2 something that the covernment has the authority to control. The reason is that all human activity, even the continuation of our very lives, creates CO2. So if the government has the authority to control that, “for the good of the many” it has the ability to control every aspect of your life, including the length of your life itself.
That’s the end game. And they give it away with this: “...it’s literally tied to every social ill.”
This is where it’s always been going.
We need to convince the wackos the only safe way for them is to tie a plastic sack tightly over their head.
Houston is flat and at sea level. Air blows in and blows out.
there are even sand (dust) storms from Saudi Arabia that affect our skies.
Gaia zealots
pay your sin tax!
I’d measure the pollution level by how hard the lungs constricted when out on the recess court running around. Or how far in the distance you could see. In the 60’s, people were worried about progress, success, productivity, standard of living. Pollution was a sign that the economy was humming and post-WWII America was thriving. Inflation was non-existent and taxes so low that you only needed one wage earner so children weren’t handed to daycares instead stayed home with mom, which meant kids weren’t sent to daycare or school when coughing and sneezing. Antibiotics were not in use much. The worst fear we experienced was during the Cuban Missile Crisis when nuclear war seemed imminent. But pollution was thanks to our manufacturing, our cars that had amazing pickup and the freedom from crushing regulations that were not yet sending all jobs to far away countries for the very important reason that profits could be made and prices of goods kept low.
Amen
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