Do you lack clean air where you live?

I think our is great...but I know I have been to some cities when you approach them you can see the pollution in the air.....two years ago I went with my daughter and granddaughter from Arizona on a trip to Phoenix....you could see for miles ahead of us the pollution hanging over the city....yuck!

I live in a heavily industrial city, and once I lived in an area where the pollution was so bad that it was deemed the most toxic zip code in my state. It wasn't hard to see why. Every industrial factory known to man must be concentrated in this one area. It is terrible. What's worse was that all of this industrial stuff was backed right up against old neighborhoods. Neither place is new. Heavy manufacturing and shipping was big in the turn of the century, so people lived close to where they work. The place I stayed at, you can walk out to your car and have this stuff all over your car which resembled sut from a fire, and you think to yourself, 'if this is all over my car, what am I breathing in?' I don't live there anymore, and the gas refinery is making an expansion which means it will buy some people out of their homes. Their goal is to create a buffer zone between the refinery and the houses because without it, a refinery would literrally sit in peoples backyards. Some people don't like it because it would run people out and break up the neighborhood, but the way I see it, no one will buy a house next to an industrial site these days so they can't sell.

yes I do lack clean air where I live due to heavy traffic rolling around and I have no control over it but the way pollution is increasing all around the situation will be the same in the big cities of world ...... Let us plant more trees and control pollution Hare Krishna Ganesh

The one glaring issue with "global warming" I see is that there's no honesty involved in the debate about its existence or in how to proceed with attempting to handle the issues which have arose from it. Everything seems to be about money and power. Al Gore, the poster child for warming, is a shrewd businessman whose alarmist nature is wholly capitalistic and not the least bit genuine. While he preaches for the rest of the world to get in line with using alternative measures, he's invested in those measures and he himself emits more carbon into the atmosphere than some entire counties in America. Gore, along with many of his buddies, are perfectly invested in an alternative market, so if and when there is a shift, they all become the new-age oil tycoons. That's all it is. They care about money. Maybe they do still care about the environment, in the sense that I'm sure they don't want the earth to become uninhabitable. But that's as far as it goes. They've found a way to play on people's fears. Something that's not new, mind you, but something that blends well with the times. In this modern age, snake oil needs a better bottle. It's a shame, too, because there is evidence that the environment is changing. But the more corruption that's exposed from within the genre, the clearer it becomes that those who would preach have a good reason for not practicing, and that is that there's no real sense of urgency on a global scale; it's not anything man can stop, and barely something that man contributes to. (I'm deducing this from the inaction of those who urge action. A real problem requires real action, not a motivational businesslike sermon from the pulpit where the only thing that ever changes is the speaker's waistline and wallet size.) But if it can be sold as strictly a man-caused problem, you have guilt, fear and loathing. You have people paying for their penitence and lining the pockets of the Gore type and granting more power to the bureaucrats who would regulate competition. It's a market wherein they're forcing the creation of a market. It's business. It's not a push to save humanity. Speaking in particular of my environment, I can remember when I was kid looking up at the sky. The stars were perfectly clear. You could even see that beautiful glow of Milky Way that perfectly provided back lighting for the cluster of billions of stars out there. As I was typing this, I peaked out the window. I counted 2 stars. I haven't seen that old view in ages. The sky here is always too foggy to see the stars the same way. We're talking about 20 years. In another 20, you might not be able to see the moon.

Hi dear... I am far long away from a site that you have mentioned but pollution is a universal issue now a days. You know, here it is almost six months over without rain and the result is air pollution. Dust dust and dust. When we go out, we must need to have a bath, not to think the time or coldness. We must have to wash the clothes that we use in a day, cant wear for the second time once we take off. urgggg.... have a nice time.

In fact, there are only a few places with clean air.Everywhere ther are vehicles, large factories and many other things which are polluting air all the time. As a whole the air is much worse than that in the past. Man should take care of his own living world.if man can't protect the earth, he will destroy himself one day,i think.

I think that I would cry. When I had to move back here I could tell that the air quality was different. Not by too much but when your used to living out in the country and come back to a more suburban area you can tell. I don't think I could live in the area your father worked, and I can't imagine the health of the six people living around that area is very good.