American Thinker: The Wishful Thinking of Greenie Dreams

None of this is meant to suggest we will not make further helpful advances in greener technologies. But it should alert us to the fact that the PR spin currently associated with greener living is often far from the whole economic and environmental story. More seriously still, it is all too often the world's poorest communities, not the pious Prius-driving elites, who ultimately pay the highest price for the West's short-sighted ‘green' moral choices.

American Thinker: The Geography of Carbon Emissions

No American city is among the top 50 cities in the world for air pollution according to the World Bank. (1) Another list, ‘The Top Ten of the Dirty Thirty,' compiled by the Blacksmith Institute of New York compared the toxicity of contamination, the likelihood of it getting into humans and the number of people affected. Places were bumped up in rank if children were impacted. No US or European sites made the list. Sites in China, India and Russia occupied six of the top ten spots. Some examples: at Linfen in Shanxi province-the heart of China's coal industry-industrial and automobile emissions put the health of 3 million people at risk. At Sukinda in the state of Orissa in India, 2.6 million people face the hazards of one of the world's opencast chromite mines. And in Dzerzhinsk, Russia, 300,000 people are exposed to toxic by-products from chemical weapons. (2)

Have you heard about this? Probably not. But there's more. Another report states that seven of the world's ten most polluted cities are in China. Of the ten cities in the world with the highest levels of air pollution, three are in India. (3). There are more reports but by now you probably get the point. Note that no US city has been mentioned. Steven Hayward in discussing the Blacksmith report makes an observation that could well apply to all of these documents: "Not surprisingly the media and green campaigners in the United States completely overlooked this report." (4)

In the Economic Madhouse

We shall also pay dearly for this ‘global warming’ folly, for this ‘Rake’s Progress’ by our increasingly ludicrous MPs.