From California to Denver: ozone woes become regional

Denver Post - November 1,2008
It goes to show that what happens in one place has significant effects downstream. Rural Wyoming is facing problems the people in the area have little connection to, and that is smog and pollution from the west coast. The biggest problem with air and water pollution is that they move and it is impossible to contain the pollution in one spot. When one river becomes polluted it flow downstream effecting the communities it passes through. Once reaching the ocean the effects are not over, fish are killed, coral dies, food chains become contaminated, and humans eventually consume the pollutants that were introduced thousands of miles away.
We want energy but we also want healthy people. The goal is to provide both but the energy has to be clean and renewable to continue to provide for generations to come. It's amazing to me that in the course of sixty years we went from the Wright Flyer to the moon, but in 120 years we can't find a way to regulate emissions, or rather the government doesn't have the balls to step to the plate and tell industry how it's going to be.
China which is experiencing rising growth rates is up-wind from the US, so we should help China with regulations because if we don't then we get some wonderful bad air, food, water, and toys.


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