According to a
March Gallup poll, 50 percent of respondents
thought the quality of the environment in the U.S., as a whole, is getting
worse. But the reality is very different. Heritage hosted an Earth Day panel event in April addressing
some of the overlooked truths about the state of the nation’s environment:
1. Human freedom and prosperity lead to environmental success…..
2. We’re not running out of resources…….
3. The quality of our air is cleaner and safer……
4. Although tough to measure, water quality is
also improving……
5. The government owns more land than it can manage……
6.
Thanks in part to the big successes made in other areas of the environment, the environmental pressure groups have
pitched global warming as the next great environmental issue of the day……
The result has
been heavy handed regulations that treat CO2 emissions as pollutants to be cut.
Yet even if one were to assume climate alarmists’ models were correct and
decide to cut all U.S. carbon emissions today—no driving or flying, no running
factories, stores or homes unless they run on nuclear power, and probably best
not to exhale either—this would only decrease world temperatures by 0.08 degrees Celsius by the year 2050.
Former EPA administrator Lisa Jackson has herself conceded that America’s efforts alone
would not meaningfully impact global CO2 levels……To Read More…..
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