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Originally posted by jayeff
Why am I not surprised that the irony of being proud of a country while helping to pollute it, went straight over your head 
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"The environmentalist attack on the automobile has centered on carbon monoxide emissions. The myth they have created and spread is that the air was significantly purer before there were any automobiles or factories. This is false. An important point is that 90 percent of the world's automobiles are in the northern hemisphere, but there is no hemispheric difference in carbon monoxide levels. Nor are carbon monoxide levels increasing on a worldwide basis. In 1978 the EPA suppressed a scientific study showing that up to 80 percent of air pollution was caused by natural, not man-made phenomena. It took a lawsuit filed under the Freedom of Information Act to pry the report out of them. One of the leading sources of air pollution widely ignored by the greens is volcanoes. According to Dr. William Pecora, former director of the United States Geological Survey, just three volcanic eruptions in the last 120 years (Krakatoa, Indonesia, 1883; Katmai, Alaska, 1912; and Hekla, Iceland, 1947) produced more particulate and gaseous pollution of the atmosphere than the combined activities of all the men who ever lived. There are many such examples. Swamps are by far the greatest source of methane pollution, and Public Works, the official publication of Oregon's Environmental Protection Agency, states that burping cows rank as the number one source of air pollution in America, disgorging 50 million tons of hydrocarbons into the atmosphere each year. It must be made clear that Mother Nature, not man's automobiles or factories, is by far the greatest source of air pollution."
There, take up sime real fucking causes, banning volcanoes, swamps, and burping cows.