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Originally posted by xcel@Apr 28th 2004 @ 4:08 PM
...In regards to a cleaner earth, I do believe this will come about as the SULEV and PZEV become the predominant vehicle of choice or via legislation being sold here in the US in the next decade. The US’ lakes, rivers, and streams are cleaner then they were just 3 decades ago and with ULEV’s on up, the air we breathe should in fact come around as well … I can only hope so anyway?
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Yes, Wayne...you can hope so! The Earth does clean itself. I offer the following evidence:
1) Rivers, lakes, and streams: Self cleaning. In fact, our wastewater treatment plants use physical and biological techniques in much the same ways as our natural bodies of water. My aquarium filters do the same thing, but on a much smaller scale.
2) Air: If particulate matter never left the atmosphere, we would still be choking on the ugly, massive, traumatic air that was polluted by Mt. Saint Helens' eruption of 20 or 21 years ago! If foreign gasseous matter never got absorbed back into the plant life in the oceans and on the land, then we'd still be smelling stale dinosaur farts from 65 million years ago! Pheeeewwwww!
3) Land: I tilled my mom & dad's garden for years. We threw all kinds of organic waste into it, including dung. The soil is deep, and rich, and dark. And everything grows huge!
Side note: It's funny how we'll put it in a pretty bag and call it "manure." We know what it is, and yet we'll still pay
actual money for what's basically a big bag of sh**.....um, well, you get my irony!
Granted, if we're careless, or if we just simply produce too much waste in too small of a geographic area, then we'll have localized problems, such as parts of LA and New York. The Earth can and does clean itself, but it does have it's limitations. It needs time and opportunity. The real beauty is that time and opportunity are both offered by the use of hybrid technology!
So Wayne, I believe that your statement of "a cleaner earth" certainly holds promise!
No doubt I'll get slammed hard by my comments above, but that's okay. It's just my opinion.
