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"mcs" <mcs@yahoo.com> wrote in news:N2Awh.15500$yB5.12371@trndny03:

> I write this to policy makers and tv editors. : No response.
> Can someone finally explain global warming and effects of pollution
> and particulates on health. Some  cities have at least moderate
> amounts each day, almost everyday. As soon as it gets a this  polluted
> my chest tightens and compared to cleaner cities its a big difference.
> How do Doctors leave the ramfications and dangers to just a few
> websites? And those effects and studies are not good  I think they are
> poisoning many many people. 
> 
> Is there a reason we ignroe this issue?
>   ----- Original Message -----  

Yep.
Big business and industrialization are more importanat, to the 
government, than human lives. 


I grew up in Pittsburgh, near the steel mill plants, in the '50s. 

We would wake up in the morning, and, all too often, there would be a 
"red ash" covering things. (the steel mills appeared to save thier worst 
pollution expulsions for the night - when less people would see it)

Our mothers would have to gauge the wind, before they hung out clothes to 
dry.

The red dust actually etched car paint and metal. 

It is blatantly obvious that it was not good for people - shoirt term or 
long term. 

When we fought the pollution, what we got back was the rhetoric that it 
would cost the corporations money, and people would lose thier jobs. 

Even back then, I thought that "if your job demands that you piss on my 
head - then you DAMANED well better get another job!

If you profit demands that you piss on my head, then DAMN your profit!

As it turned out (as some people had predicted) Whenb "government 
regulations (you know ... those demon things the repulicans hate) forced 
the industires to clean up .... more jobs and a whole new industry were 
created in anti-pollution products. 

The steel mills, for many reasons - none of which had to do with 
pollution or pollution controls, ended up leaving for foreign shores 
anyway.