Your regular reminder that the US air & water pollution laws passed in the 60s & 70s -- and the elaborate federal bureaucracy created to administer them -- constitute one of the most successful gov't interventions in history. WILDLY successful. The envy of the world.
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This is precisely why the right has always hated them so much -- not because they're "wasteful," but because they *work*.
"Our central benefits estimate exceeds costs by a factor of more than 30 to one, and the high benefits estimate exceeds costs by 90 times. Even the low benefits estimate exceeds costs by about three to one."
And the propaganda machine on the other side, telling the (truthful) success story?
There isn't one.
Most of the EPAs work is studying the harm from chemicals and setting up maximum levels of exposure and cleanup goals.
With the fragmentation of media voters don't all get a common set of news about the world. The rightwing uses that to spread lies and propaganda.
Thank fucking God I'm not a real man.
Now you look at downtown Los Angeles from Griffith Observatory, and it’s crystal clear.
There’s a whole generation that has no idea!
Over time, success is taken for granted.
https://www.mining.com/from-wasteland-to-wetland-restoring-tennessees-copper-basin-mining-district/
Back of my neck gettin' dirty and gritty..."
That was literally true back then, the air was so dirty.
Most if not all European nations have much stricter ( better protection) laws … so don’t fool yourself to think the industrial world is jealous
Anemic funding ever since, until ARPA/BIL/IRA. And that funding is probably <20% of total project costs nationally.
Yet so much anger from Republican rubes.
Remarkably stupid.
And the pains they take to protect our air and drinking water from seriously bad people.
https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/criminal-enforcement
Wasn't the Ohio River literally on FIRE?
Let's do that again... 🤪🙄🤪
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/cuyahoga-river-caught-fire-least-dozen-times-no-one-cared-until-1969-180972444/
We grew up breathing this garbage air during a time of dangerously high concentrations of lead from gasoline causing brain damage. 🤬
We may never recover
We took two steps forward the last four years, we’re going to take 50 years of steps back
The 60s with a 90%
reduction simply by burning blowby again PCV and unventing the gas cap and later carburetor as well.
Ignition timing and lowering peak combustion chamber temp to fight smog
New computer control and catalytics have
greatly reduced
emissions like never
seen...
https://humanaccessproject.com/
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9foi342LXQE&pp=ygUNUHl0aG9uIHJvbWFucw%3D%3D
China's transformation of industrial pollution happened in 12 years.
Ignorance is the currency of all maga.
Anyone with even a slight awareness about the world knows they are idiots.
What are you...some kind of communist?
They. Are. Nuts. And. Dangerous.
A friend recalls being with his father, a WW2 vet and hunter and fisherman who lived here his entire life, when they saw one of the first pairs. His father had never seen one before.
EPA and civil servants got it cleaned up with oversight and regulations.
And aviation safety.
FUCK
Dems: Nah
They assume progress.
Unfortunately … … …
This is what it was like in 1972
Have you heard that the world's gone crazy?
Can you name the song?
Commie!
We need to be reminded. Often.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/clean-air-act-saved-millions-of-lives-trillions-of-dollars
Some countries implemented better systems, some worse, but none would happen without the US leading the way.
He was an Italian American who went by the name Iron Eyes Cody.
He was born Espera Oscar de Corti and he built a career around playing Native characters in Hollywood Westerns.
He presented himself as Native in his real life.