Originally Posted by
SideStickMonkey
American exceptionalism.
We should be able to start with clean air and water. Like that's pretty basic.
Sorry Exxon, can't dump your waste straight into the river. Shell, gonna have to put some scrubbers on your plants to keep particulates down.
It is the cost of doing business in the US. Unless you want to have the air quality of India and China...
At some point the adults have to stand up and say I want better things for my children and not pass down to them a giant mess.
That's another issue with fossil fuels, really hard to keep it all clean. Even if you don't buy all the climate hype (I think it's too complicated to predict accurately), pollution is a very real thing. I've seen a rather dramatic improvement in air quality in SOCAL since my childhood.