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Originally Posted by AGDee
I'll add some thoughtful comments. My take on pollution/man made global warming is this: Whether these forms of pollution actually cause global warming is controversial and difficult to prove. However, the cancer rates and asthma rates in areas with high pollution are very high and, I will never believe that the orange smoke that comes out of one of the factories between my house and my work could be anything but unhealthy to breathe. Have you ever gotten a big breath chock full of car exhaust by accident? It's awful. It can't be healthy. Whether we're causing global warming or not, we've banned second hand smoke in many public places, but our air quality laws became more lax under the Bush administration. I don't want to keep breathing that crap, whether it causes global warming or not. The fewer chemicals we put into the air, the better, for our health.
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Absolutely. Fixing global warming has huge direct benefits. While carbon doesn't really hurt us, it has other environmental consequences such as increasing the acidity of the ocean, which has been shown to decrease the chances of some fish getting away from predators.
I don't know about y'all, but I could definitely stand to breathe less sulfur, etc.