President Bush said at the time that the U.S. would produce better, faster reductions using a voluntary market based strategy. President Bush then mandated the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to draft what has become the Clear Sky’s Initiative. Since it’s inception, all of the environmental activist groups and a majority of the States across the nation have voiced opposition to what essentially is an attempt to destroyed much of the Clean Air Act in favor the largest, most profitable, polluters in the U.S.

The Clean Air Act was in response to wide spread industrial air pollution that affected millions of people across the nation. It came on the heals of such landmark legislation as the Superfund Re-authorization Act, to cleanup contaminated sites like Love Canal and the Resource Conservation and

If we bring together laws with real teeth and a comprehensive outreach and education program we might stem the tide of worldwide environmental decline. Many scientists’ have publicly proclaimed:

“A new ethic is required-a new attitude towards discharging our responsibility for caring for ourselves and for the earth. We must recognize the earth’s limited capacity to provide for us. We must recognize its fragility. We must no longer allow it to be ravaged. This ethic must motivate a great movement, convince reluctant leaders and reluctant governments and reluctant people themselves to effect the needed changes,” (World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity).

There are literally thousands of noted scientists’ who have stepped forward to encourage and some who have demanded a stronger stance on environmentalism (World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity 2). The problems in addressing the environmental issue are two fold. First: only now are scientists’, environmental groups, and government agencies beginning to understand the global complexities involved. There are many unanswered questions. This does not mean it is not reality; it just provides grounds for argument to look the other way and continue business as usual. Second: problems with the regulated community. Lets face it, in our free market society and most of the rest of the industrialized world, environmental protection is not a driving force. In fact, in spite of strict laws and hefty fines, some companies will go so far as to intentionally disregard the law even to the point of criminal negligence (ADEQ).

The “population bomb” as it was first termed in the early 1970s has been a controversial issue ever since. Even then, the government, business leaders, and scientists’ were very much at odds. Up until that time science had been able to cope with many of the problems we were facing. Now, 30 years later, we still have not learned very much and we are still in denial.

The same holds true for the agriculture industry. More ground and water pollution comes from water runoff of agricultural land than any other source (Gale Group). The chemical revolution also changed food production to be able to feed a starving world. This train of thought is where much of the hype over a “population bomb” came from. With the advent of pesticides, other than DDT, and industrial strength fertilizers, food production worldwide has been able to keep pace with population. Only now are we beginning to understand these substances and how they react over time in our environment.

Today the United States has one of the best sanitation systems in the world. Yet estimates by the EPA says there has been more than one trillion gallons of waste water dumped into the groundwater every year since 1970 in the United States alone and this is only from private rural septic systems (Gale Group 137).

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