Fixing America In 500 Words Or Less Chapter 13 DOES POLLUTION CAUSE GLOBAL WARMING? When I was a boy growing up in Southern California, all of us kids had trouble breathing on summer days that were exceptionally smoggy.  We experienced chest pains, shortness of breath and burning pain in our lungs, whether or not we had asthma, lung or other problems not attributable to the smog. It is a well-documented and well-accepted medical fact that human-induced pollution is bad for people, especially young children. ¹  That alone is plenty more than enough reason to get rid of as much pollution as possible, as quickly as possible. Our ever-myopic U.S. media, as usual, is focusing on the wrong thing.  Whether or not human-induced pollution is causing global warming is irrelevant to the larger issue of increased lung disease, cancer, liver disease and heart problems that result from human pollution.  It is also very bad for plant and animal food sources that we depend upon to survive. ² Such problems are well documented to have increased significantly greater than population growth in both China and India over the past 10 years, since pollution has skyrocketed in their various urban centers along with their surging economies. There is no legitimate argument that can be made against curbing and eliminating human-induced pollution as quickly as possible.  Case closed. And by the way, Al Gore is absolutely right about human pollution being significantly harmful to our planet and every living thing on it, whether or not he is correct about every detail. ³ NOTES: 1. Just a few of the innumerable online sources documenting negative health effects of pollution on human beings:  a) Health Effects of Air Pollution, b) Natural Resources Defense Council, c) Smog Effects, d) Medical Effects of Air Pollutants , e) Effects of Air Pollution on Births in Los Angeles, f) Effects of Pollution on Hearing and Balance, g) World Health Organization, h) Air Pollution Kills 2 Million Per Year, i) United States, j) China, k) India, l) Sri Lanka, m) International Air Pollution Statistics. 2. a) Air Pollution Effects on Plants and Animals, b) Wild Life and Pollution, c) Human Infectious Diseases Due to Water Pollution, d) Water Pollution Effects, e) Bizarre Pollution Effects on Animals, f) Coral Reefs in Crises. 3. The evidence that human-induced pollution is causing significant adverse effects to the planetary environment of us all is overwhelming and, perhaps greater than evidence for almost all other documented scientific evidence combined.  Because determining negative effects of human-induced pollution is a highly complex science involving a great many inter-acting global warming, global dimming and other complex processes, right-wing media hacks and bought-and-paid-for corporate frauds posing as "scientists", are rather easily able to deceive portions of the general American public by pulling a few "facts" out of context.  People who don't study evidence or read much for themselves and thus, depend on crooked priests, preachers and political hacks to explain things for them, are accustomed to short, simple sounding sound-bite explanations, of which regarding the severe negative effects of human-induced global pollution, there aren't any, other than for the human race to abandon the planet entirely and start all over somewhere else.  One might logically ask, if right-wing media hacks and corporate shill scientists know so much about what is true regarding pollution, why aren't they trying to do something about what is overwhelmingly documented to be deadly to their own children and grandchildren, rather than wasting everybody's time disputing Global Warming causes.  One must conclude that Thomas Jefferson was indeed truly wrong about all people being created equal, especially in the ethics, morality and common sense departments. Click to Go Back to Contents Other Books by Richard Aberdeen Click Here to eMail the Author Copyright © by Richard Aberdeen Copyright © by Freedom Tracks Music No part of this material may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including printing, photocopying, recording or by any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the author.  Inquiries: Freedom Tracks Music ~ Records / 292 Trails Circle / Nashville, Tennessee 37214 or requested via eMail.  Appendix Revolution and Revolution/Side B are open copyright and may be reproduced or utilized as desired.