Dear deniers of climate change: Have you looked at our air lately? Have you tasted it? Has it gotten stuck in your throat and made you cough or made your eyes water?
Guess what? Nature didn’t do it. Those noxious vapors and toxic particles are 100 percent man-caused.
Multiply this amount of visible toxic emissions by the daily amounts emitted around the world by cars, factories, power plants, furnaces, fires, methane, chlorofluorocarbons and all other man-made pollutants containing sulfur and nitrogen dioxides, and you begin to see the problem. These contaminants fall to earth as acid rain, where they poison soil, plants and ground water.
When our toxic air finally clears, it won’t magically disappear. It will only go somewhere else, diluting itself into the atmosphere where it continues to increase, destroying the ozone layer and, ultimately, warming and contaminating the planet. Those who deny the human influence on global climate change are unwilling to change their role in causing it. It’s just a lot easier to blame Mother Nature.
David E. Jensen
Holladay
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