Comments on: Air Pollution

by: Kyle

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:43:24 +0000

The environment is walking on eggshells right now. Too many people are running older cars and trucks that get extremely poor fuel economy. More and more hybrids are on the road, as are cleaner vehicles that operate on diesel fuel. School buses and trucks contribute to the pollution on the greatest scale, and they need to be reformed in order to help the environment. Prius demands are seriously up, and the car is perfectly fine for over 90% of American persons. If not, the Highlander Hybrid will fill the gap.

by: Dani

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:26:47 +0000

sorry about spelling certain letters are out of order right now.

by: Dani

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:25:56 +0000

I personaly do not agree with what is going on with he Clear Skies act. I have astha also, and i really don’t like to coe hoe fro vacation (in the ountains or ust out of New ersey) and find i can’t breath right becouse of the pollution. I don’t live in the place where they created that act but still, pollution is a big proble, and i don’t like how others are paying people off others to be able to create ore pollution than they are allowed to, ya aybe it is becouse they don’t want to reach into their pockets and spend ore $ ust so they are aking less pollution or to have cleaner production. People ARE lazy, and gov’t officials should enforce the law of this act not ust let it all slide. People are getting sick and these factory owners don’t care at all, i feel that they should get a taste of what they are dishing out to us, its ust like back when there were anopolies (When Rockafeller and all those copanies were in power over the gov’t) The gov’t didn’t go into busyness when they should have and went in and got involved when they shouldn’t have. Basicaly the gov’t wont interfear in soething like this because all they care about is how uch the copany is paying the and keeping up their funds. Soeone else needs to ake the factories do as they should.

by: louise

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:15:19 +0000

Political will is key. Current adinistration has not been willing to sign onto the Kyoto Protocol or create incentives for exploration and developent of alternative energy. Unless we, as citizens, hold our representatives accountable for not ust passing legislation but enabling and funding it…and are willing to ake tough choices, nothing is going to change.

by: Joe

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:05:09 +0000

The Clear Skies Initiative is a downright corrupt policy. Businesses should not have the ability to purchase these…indulgences (referring to the pardoning of sins by priests for a fee). It’s nothing more than common bribery, endorsed by our government. If a business can’t afford to meet restrictions, they should close down. Yes, this will kill our economy for a time. But we’l recover. And if we don’t turn around soon, we’ll crash, and suffer a good deal more. We’re past the point of no return. We have to give up something in order to fix things. When people realize that, and are selfless enough to sacrifice a bit of the happiness of their generation for posterity, then we’ll see some change.

by: Spal

Sat, 31 May 2008 13:46:12 +0000

The issue with grassroots organizations is that their power over this sort of thing is very restricted. It’s true that, if individuals were to reduce their own carbon footprints, then air quality would be drastically better, even without the cooperation of polluting corporations. But the willingness of the public to live ‘greener’ lifestyles only goes so far; we can’t buy hybrid cars or low-energy light bulbs if nobody is selling affordable, eco-friendly products.
In light of this, raising the consciousness of citizens can only go so far towards alleviating the air-pollution issue (and, generally, the weather change issue). Until the necessary products and alternatives are widely available, it’s nearly irrelevant to point out that the general public isn’t doing enough to significantly alter their individual contributions to pollution. Of course they’re (we’re) not! It’s the responsibility of the corporations which produce the goods that we all use to ensure that we’re even able to change the way we interact with nature. We can only choose between the available options.

by: Dan

Sat, 31 May 2008 13:35:37 +0000

If the governent wants to create social equality with respect to air quality it would need to recognize that air polluting industries will always use cash loopholes to continue to produce in certain areas. Unless congress recognizes this and uses the collected funds to create controls to reduce this pollution, then concerns will not change their behavior.

by: Z.Gluck

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:54:31 +0000

I think citizens can be more cautious of how they are using cars, and every day objects. The use of cars is not only hurting people’s health conditions but the environment around them. I think is people were more aware of the situation they (the people) are more likely to help and change the situation. If people really wanted to help this situation they could help enforce the Clean Air Act. They could help make the government more aware of their situation.
We can reduce the pollution by using less gas and increasing public transportation. Maybe instead of using gas you can use things like excess cooking oil to heat homes and such. We can also reduce pollution by reusing things. It may be more convenient to pollute and it may take more time to help the environment but by taking the time we can help reduce the amount of pollutants and we can help reduce the amount of sickness’.
We can help the sick kids by seeking help from the community if the government is unwilling to help. Beacause this is happening in more unfortunate communitites there is less help. In these situations money should not be the biggest issue. The biggest issue should be helping the unfortunate kids recover from sickness’ or something like asthma.
The government should be more of a help because what good is a government if they are not prepared to help EVERYONE and not just the ones who have million dollar houses.

by: Laura

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 20:51:06 +0000

It’s apparent to me that we need to have better laws in place to regulate pollution… but what’s more important, and commonly overlooked is the lack of enforcement of the laws already on the books. We need to make changes, but we need to enforce the changes we’ve already made thus far first.

by: mjonir

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 14:04:30 +0000

the clean air acts must be enforced–if energy and fuel efficient products are available to the rich, the should be tweaked so that they can be affordable to the general public. once the means to protect the earth are affordable, the pollution levels should alleviate.