Originally posted by Grendel
No offense intended, but aren't you being a little bit hysterical here? We should all be concerned about our impact on the environment, but this kind of alarmist arm-waving is silly. According to the EPA, since 1970 aggregate emissions of six principal pollutants (NO2, O3, SO2, CO, Pb, and particulate matter) tracked nationally in the United States have been cut 25 percent. During that same time period, U.S. Gross Domestic Product increased 161 percent, energy consumption increased 42 percent, and vehicle miles traveled have increased 149 percent. In other words, despite all of that growth our air is cleaner than it has been in more than 30 years...
Aha. You believe anything in printed letters.
The level of toxic agents along the motorways is many
times higher than the safety norm. It is the fact.
Besides these toxins have the accumulating properties. So it will continue to grow.
It is not only in the US.
Recently there was a demonstration in Western Europe, when people blocked the autobahn (highway) near their vilage, because the level of some toxins was 22 times higher in their village than the safety norm.
I wish you were right and I, indeed, could be an irrelevant alarmist. I would eagerly agree, if you could convince me. In fact, I would be happy to be as mindless and gullible as you.
But I am not blind, neither stupid, If I see the endless flow of cars on the sreet, I can fairly enough predict that people who live along this street are in danger.
I studied chemistry, physics, and biology well enough to be 100 % sure that there is the problem.
You can make an easy scientific test yourself. You do not need the EPA for this. Put your SUV in the garage and start the engine. Take a stopwatch and measure how long a mammal life will last in the garage or in the SUV. In
minutes everything will be over.
On a windless day, the effect will be the same, even if you open the garage door.
On a windless day, with thousands cars on the street
there is the dangerous pressure on the surrounding environment. It is selfevident.