The good news about fighting the global climate crisis is that there are ancillary benefits from the methods, techniques and technologies which we must adopt in order to reduce our carbon footprint. At the top of the list of those benefits is air pollution. Exacerbating a whole host of maladies including asthma and emphysema, air pollution is as dirty as its name sounds.
Proposals to dispense with fossil fuels such as coal, natural gas and petroleum in our electrical power plants receive a great deal of attention and rightly so. However, urban haze and smog are a growing problem, too, and point to air pollution statistics which may shock you. My favorite dates back to the summer of 1996.
As you will recall, Atlanta, capital city of the State of Georgia, often called the New York of the South, hosted the Olympic Games. Living in the South, I can tell you that it was a big deal for Florida, even though we were hundreds of miles away from most of the action.
Ask
a Question or Leave a Comment
(0)
Digg This 
Del.icio.us