BAD NEWS: EARTH'S AIR IS CLEANER
The air is cleaner, which should be good, right? No, it could increase the greenhouse effect. It is interesting to note the headlines the editors apply to reframe good news in a negative light.
Bush's opponents use his opposition to the Kyoto Protocol to label him as pro-big business and to hell with the environment. His actual position is that the regulations already in place are cleaning up the environment and that it will be cheaper to respond to the eventual real impacts of environmental change than to throw money into the wind trying to keep the environment from changing.
More bad news: the water is cleaner too, and has been for many years. We hear so much squawking about the environment, most people don't realize the environment is in much better shape today than it was when the squawking started. But the truth never stands in the way of a useful argument.
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