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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All that is true but it is also true that the air quality in big cities sucked compared to now.
Q: Since no one is driving, oil demand is so off its effecting world storage, how could this possibly effect Global Warming?
A: Because its another lie from the MSM
Precisely! And yet, we weren’t conditioned to fear and hate it. One has to look through the perspective of that era.
I used to like the cool cars that came out every year. Now they are all just blah.
Catherine Flowers, a field activist in Houston with the advocacy group Moms Clean Air Force,
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.
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Wife and I have a son and family in Houston. We travel there 2 or more times a year and have never experienced any form of air quality problems.
The way these environmental people talk you would assume there are people gagging on a consistent basis for more and fresher air. Give me a break!
Yup
Not this month.....
Weren't we in danger because there was a 'hole' in the ozone layer?
Don't we need ozone in the atmosphere to protect us?
Most LIBERALS couldn’t give a shit about this!
The ALA does acknowledge that we all gotta go sometime.. No?
That this planet has survived so long in this cruel universe should make us all hold our breath.. in awe.
All pollution is local it seems and so is politics.
The Oregonian once reported that 18% of environmental mercury in Oregon comes from China.
Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.Frontpage Interview with Dr. Theodore Dalrymple: Our Culture, Whats Left Of It interviewed by Jamie Glazov [August 31, 2005]
Organizations Funded Directly by George Soros and his Open Society Foundations:
I didn’t find it on the list but I’m sure Soros has his filthy hands in this...
Heck, it was bad into the early 70s. The EPA didnt come around until then, thats when auto emissions controls got going, etc.
Big Cities have dirty air? Who knew? On average, America has some of the cleanest air in the world. Better than Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Switzerland, Germany, Netherlands, and all the other “green” countries that look down on us. That is, when it comes to “real pollution” that causes actual health problems. Not CO2 and other fake pollutants.
https://qz.com/794542/air-pollution-map-by-country-fine-particulate-matter/
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