Will air pollution ever be settled?

Question

Will air pollution ever be settled?

Answer 1

No not as long as u think it is CO2 . All power comes from the burning of Corbin and that produces CO2 . The earth has an air recycling process . It is plants and photosynthesis .

Answer 2

Probably.  But its going to take decades. There's a number of issues: factories that give off toxic chemicals like sulfur dioxide, the sort of everyday polllution in our cities, and CO2 emmissions.  And there is also the reality that to stop a particular type of pollution, first you have to figure out how to stop it without just shutting down an entire industry or telling everyone to stop driving.  First, people won't do that and second--they CAN'T do that--our whol economy would collapse.

And after you do find a solution, you can't just change an entire industry overnight.  Nor can you just junk every car and start driving new ones.  It takes years-or decades--to make a changeover.

But over time it will happen.  The biggest problem is that special interests (primarily many companies in the oil/coal/natural gas industries) are delliberately obstructing change because it threatens them.  That's getting in the way of making policy changes, etc.

And part of the problem (mostly because of those same commpanies scare tactics) is that people don't want to lose jobs because of environmental regulations--and you certainly can't fault them for that.  But what many people don't realize is that, overall, the kinds of policies an changes will HELP the economy and create MORE jobs in the long run.  And-20-30 years from now, energy prices will be LOWER than they are today, though they will keep going up for a while.

A lot of those new jobs willl be different.  We'll be driving different kinds of cars than we do  today.  And yes, a few products will be more expensive--but most will not (at least because of environmental regulations--can't say what will happen as far as things like inflation, etc.).

Here's one concrete example of how this might happen (this one is almost certain to happpen, BTW).  Currently, new forms of solar energy are being developed that are far cheaper to install than the current kinds of solar panels.  In a few years people are going to be putting these in (on) their homes in large numbers.  There's an up-front investment, of course (right now that's still pretty steep, which is why a lot of people aren't doing it yet). But it will pay for itself--it'll do that now if you can afford the investment.

And that will creat a lot of jobs--people to make the solar power systems, people to install them, people to service them.  All that addds up to economic growth and lower energy prices or the consumer (YOU).

Of course, one side effect of this is tha tExxon won't be able to make those $10 billion a quarter profits anymore.  If you like, you can send them a sympathy card! ;:)