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I am not a tree-hugger, and very much do want to see humans colonize space. On the other hand, I've become rather fond of breathable air and drinkable water. So, I don't do much to commemorate Earth Day, but I do appreciate what the advocates of that event wrought.
Well, the historically-illiterate crowd over at Simberg's Flying Circus think You no longer worry about pollution, because you know that once free people become annoyed by it, other free people will fix it with cleaner fuel-burning methods and filters. Where are the pea soups of London?.
Well, Virginia, after the Great Smog of 1952 (pictures here) killed a few thousand people and shut London down, what really happened is that Great Britain passed The Clean Air Act of 1956. After the Cuyahoga River caught fire in 1969, Tricky Dick Nixon founded the EPA. The clean air you're breathing comes to you courtesy of your national government.
Well, the historically-illiterate crowd over at Simberg's Flying Circus think You no longer worry about pollution, because you know that once free people become annoyed by it, other free people will fix it with cleaner fuel-burning methods and filters. Where are the pea soups of London?.
Well, Virginia, after the Great Smog of 1952 (pictures here) killed a few thousand people and shut London down, what really happened is that Great Britain passed The Clean Air Act of 1956. After the Cuyahoga River caught fire in 1969, Tricky Dick Nixon founded the EPA. The clean air you're breathing comes to you courtesy of your national government.
