Why is the government not taking correct measures to stop pollution?

Answer 1

Ever hear of the EPA Act? Do you know how many billions of dollars are spent every year in the USA alone to comply with the laws from the EPA?

If that is not taking the correct measures, I do not know what you want. If you want zero discharge, then I suggest that you reconsider how you are living your life.

Do you have a cell phone? it pollutes

Do you eat food? The process of raising food, bringing it to market, cooking and eating yields pollution.

Do you poop on the toilet? Have you considered what happens to your poop? It goes to a sewer treatment plant where (gasp) pollution occurs.

The government is doing plenty. You should research your questions a bit better before swalling the gullible lies of the environmental wackos.

Or, you should dig an outhouse in your back yard, drink nothing but untreated well water and grow your own food living in a shack no bigger than the one the UniBomber lived in.

Answer 2

Cool Babes ... Stopping ALL pollution would mean we'd have to live like the Amish (see my link below). By the way, I am in NO WAY saying that to put-down/disparage the Amish way of life. But most of us don't know how to live that way and many would flat refuse to.

Some would say, "But my car has the most high-tech pollution controls. It doesn't pollute." Or they might say, "Well, I recycle all my trash and I don't pollute either."

Well, think of all the flame and heat that was required to melt, shape, and produce all the parts an automobile uses ... or all the energy required to produce and operate the trains and the trucks that transported those vehicles to the dealerships where they're sold.

Practically EVERYthing we do pollutes, unless you give up your way of life and decide to follow the conservative Amish sects.

I think the objective should not necessarily be to eliminate all pollution. Even in a so-called "perfect world," this seems impossible to achieve. However, hopefully mankind will discover ways to minimize the use and waste of energy. As for all the waste we produce, more recycling is needed. And lastly, mother nature has many built-in ways in which the waste/pollution that man produces can be processed in natural ways and changed back to a useful or non-toxic state. However, I honestly fear that with more than six billion people on the planet, we're producing waste and pollution much, much faster than nature can process it.

I hope I've answered your question, Babes.

Answer 3

All the thing can not be stopped by the govt. Every body from all the level should take initiative to take action to minimise the pollution. It can not be stopped but at least it can be reduced up to the level which can be permitted for the human.

Answer 4

what's the "maximum acceptable" degree? which type of pollution? We banned PCBs, CFCs, tetraethyl lead, and nuclear plant structure change into presented to a standstill. Mercury is being phased out as a shopper commodity. notwithstanding the folk favor means, so fossil gasoline fired flowers took up the slack from nuclear. Now you don't love that, and favor eco-friendly. eco-friendly won't be able to provide adequate means, even with the actuality that. And what about the birds the windmills chop up? tell me how eco-friendly it truly is. I desire I had a quarter for each "environmentalist" that has advised me they couldn't do devoid of their pickup, van, SUV or luxury automobile.

Answer 5

Our Government is already doing more then any other country. For one Bush saw it better to spend the money they would lose in cleaner Fuels, there are a lot of new laws being passed to help clean up the way we do things, you just need to open your eyes other country's aren't doing crap but putting pressure on the US. Face it we can't change the way we live in a matter of years without pulling ourselves into a third world country, and I really feel that's what the aim is from all these other country's putting pressure on the US is for, Kind of like a silent attack on the US. We are making steps to cleaner life any other country can say they are?

Answer 6

At the moment at the top of the list is recyled water and the enviroment . This government has alreday taken steps to fight pollution. already. gone are the days we ust to have leaded fuel. cars and now old cars on our roads are forced off the roads and owners are now forced to buy new cars

Answer 7

Dear the Govt is taking necessary steps to avoid pollution. u see the instructions.

Answer 8

Saturation level has been reached. We just can't sit in air-conditioned rooms and blame the government. Come out with concrete suggestions. Start with your neighbourhood. May be staggering hours, pooling of vehicles to commute, not throwing plastics and littering all over chocking the gutters. Come on think.... Hoping to hear from you soon.

Answer 9

The government knows it is already to late.
Their job (as you can plainly see) is to deny that anything is wrong.
Our job is to consume (that is how we have been raised and we don't know any better).
This state of affairs has brought us to where we are today; a world full of people so fattened up and pacified, so gullible and ignorant, that they can't see the plain truth RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEIR EYES!

We have entered the era of consequences...

The government is only taking measures to avoid panic because they know that that is all they can do now...

Answer 10

Do you know that Exxon pays 10 000 US$ to any scientist who writes an article that denies the IPCC report published yesterday?

Have or have had your government are relationship with american oil industry?

Aren t they close friends?

If environmental industry almost doesn t exist in USA is because american oil industry never invested in different sort of energy.

But USA pays that bill more than anyone else. Not your government, you citizens pay. Worse water, worse air, worse food than similar countries in GDP per capita.