What about volcanoes? There are tons of active volcanoes on land and underwater that have spewed out toxic gases for millions of years. How do you put a filter on them? Then you have had massive volcanic eruptions like Santorini, Krakatora, and Tambora, plus lesser eruptions like Vesuivius, Mount Pelee, Mount St. Helens, Mount Pinatubo and Nevado del Ruiz that make an atomic bomb blast look like a firecracker. Plus each eruption threw more toxic soot into the air than the entire human industrial revolution. Each eruption effected brief climate change that ranged from a few days (St Helens, global temperature dropped one degree) or up to a year (Tambora, 1816 a year without summer).
Agree with the idea that pollution can and should be controlled but climate change cannot be stopped. Earth’s climate was very different a billion years ago and has been changing long before humans walked the earth.
The US has had emission laws on the books for years for cars, factories, power plants and landfills. I have lived less than 10km from a coal fired power plant and landfill for over 15 years and there have never been any environmental problems in my neck of the woods. In fact the area I live in has undergone a major build up of homes and businesses since my family moved here and no one has ever raised a stink about the power plant or landfill and all know about it.
What has Eastern Europe, Russia, China, India and the developing Third World nations done to stop their pollution? Have they signed the Kyoto Treaty?
Perhaps they dont need an excuse to put taxes up.
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