Pollution transcends warming

The debate rages on about global warming, but many of us feel as though the problems that we have with pollution as a whole make the whole argument moot. If there is indeed no such thing as man-made global warming, does that mean that we shouldn’t try to cut down on driving, and that there is no reason to become more fuel efficient and depend less on finite resources like oil? It’s true that we should seek the truth and be concerned if we are being lied to by a segment of the scientific community that is being influenced by political goals, but we shouldn’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.

If you have ever driven into Los Angeles, going back decades, you see the polluted haze that envelopes the city. This exists in all big metropolitan areas, and the fact, is we breathe that stuff, and it seeps into our pores. People walk around with ribbons on their lapels that are supposed to make us aware of various forms of cancer, but many of them are driving Cadillac Escalades through the soupy polluted plasma of their city while they insist that there is no such thing as global warming. I wonder if the pollution in the environment all around us contributes to cancer and other health problems?

It is rather disturbing to see the truth movement scoffing at the suggestion of man-made global warming and in so doing, ignoring and marginalizing one of the three biggest problem facing humanity today. “The environment” has always been seen as a “left wing cause,” but that spin is just corporate propaganda intended to fool Republicans into voting against their own interests. Go ahead and proceed from the standpoint that there is no such thing as global warming. But even if you do, all of the things that people suggest we do to combat this non-existent threat are all necessary to address the ongoing problem that we have with environmental pollution that is at the root of many of our most serious health problems.