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Originally Posted by Two Bills
Do people who keep on banging on about how bad the air is, not remember back to pre and post WW2 times.
As a kid growing up in those post war times, the air was foul, full of coal smoke, lead, sulfur, and God knows what else, and every winter, for sure here in the UK, thousands died from the smog and fogs it created.
In the mid 1950s a clean air act was passed, and slowly great improvements were made.
Nowadays emissions from industry and cars are minimal compared to those times, and as far as I can tell air quality has never been better.
I know climate is changing, only a fool would deny it, but all down to cars and industry?
I don't think so.
What happens if by some miracle we get to the Holy Grail of zero emissions and the climate continues to change?
Will enough ever be enough for the zealot industry?
Mother Nature must be laughing her socks off as she does her own thing.
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I think you completely missed the point. It's not sulphur, mercury, and all those other nasties that could severely impact our health - it's also what you can't see. Think of Carbon Monoxide in your home - invisible and yet kills. We may think everything is "clean", but as CO2 levels rise you will find it harder to breathe and as Elon points out we will all start to suffer. Sort of like a frog in a pot of water slowly being brought to the boil.
My intent is to point out that besides climate change, elimination of biodiversity, and all the other problems a reliance on fossil fuels creates - CO2 is a very simple one to understand. It's easy to measure, and the charts make it very plain as to what is going on.
Maybe it's a case of the Millenials and Gen Z's will have to deal with this because we will all be dead when it starts to rear it's ugly head. But whatever the case, we (the not so "wise" old ones) are not leaving the world in a great place for our grand children.