The Real Polluters

[RobBob]

I'll keep my relatively efficient SUV, thank you, knowing that the people burning shit in the poorer parts of the world are the real aerial emmissions culprits. Sometime in the past five years I remember reading that a backyard trash fire containing household plastic will emit more pcb's and the like than a modern-day large scale waste incinerator.

 

Now comes today's Wall Street Journal article, "A Dirty Discovery Over Indian Ocean Sets Off a Fight." I don't have an online subscription to cut and paste, but if you have a copy of the Journal, you ought to read this article about the "Asian Brown Cloud."

[Necronomicon]

RobBob said:

I'll keep my relatively efficient SUV, thank you, knowing that the people burning shit in the poorer parts of the world are the real aerial emmissions culprits. Sometime in the past five years I remember reading that a backyard trash fire containing household plastic will emit more pcb's and the like than a modern-day large scale waste incinerator.

 

Now comes today's Wall Street Journal article, "A Dirty Discovery Over Indian Ocean Sets Off a Fight." I don't have an online subscription to cut and paste, but if you have a copy of the Journal, you ought to read this article about the "Asian Brown Cloud."

 

Whatever. Your SUV is still an overconsumptive shitheap, no matter how much worse someone else is polluting. You're still a disease.

[Ursa_Eagle]

and don't forget how much of the world's energy the US consumes... (I don't remember the numbers, but it's outrageous.)

I'm sure that putting out a few fires will more than make up for the amount of pollutants that the SUK's in America produce.

[JGowans]

Ursa_Eagle said:

and don't forget how much of the world's energy the US consumes... (I don't remember the numbers, but it's outrageous.)

I'm outraged.

[gapertimmy]

RobBob said:

"Asian Brown Cloud."

 

the asian brown cloud is what emits from my hairy after eating at CHAN's here in Bend, which by the way is frickin

[Fence_Sitter]

i blow my smoke...you blow yours.... i love how everyone tries to blame the U.S. for everything... sure we consume more energy, but at least we aren't burning trash for energy....i say we live in a damned good country and anyuone who disagrees can stick their mouth over the 2.5 inch exhaust of my F-250

[JoshK]

The south american developing countries are huge culprits. Not only polluting like shit but ripping down their rain forests to raise cattle for fuckin' mcdonalds.

[Ursa_Eagle]

I think that we're in a race with most other countries to see who can screw up the planet the fastest.

[E-rock]

Fence_Sitter said:

i blow my smoke...you blow yours.... i love how everyone tries to blame the U.S. for everything... sure we consume more energy, but at least we aren't burning trash for energy....

 

Umm actually we do, it's called trash to steam, and it's cleaner than coal.