2007-10-20 12:58:02 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment ➔ Other - Environment
I agree with the first answerer that industry doesn't really develop new contaminants. But, they do keep pouring more contaminants (such as mercury and carbon dioxide) into the environment. I am not really an expert in this field, but I would guess that, unless industry works to stop pollution NOW, we might be on this earth for another eighty to one hundred years.
2007-10-20 14:41:13 · answer #1 · answered by Carl T 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what a joke.
19th century manufacturing was some of the dirtiest in history.
Everything was coal-fired, which produced clouds of acid and tons of soot. Engravings on cemetary markers would just dissolve away in the stuff just floating around in the air.
20th century Russia and China produced ten times the poisonous wastes that American manufacturing ever did. And those countries never had environmental protection laws like we operate under in the West.
Would you rather that we go back to horse-drawn carriages? We'll knock down the forests to make the buggies, and the horse manure will spawn new epidemics that will kill millions...
The idea that we're contaminating the world is a fallacy. We should be good stewards of the Earth either way. We don't need scare tactics to make environmental concerns seem real.
2007-10-20 22:17:09 · answer #2 · answered by chocolahoma 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I just searched my cupboards and the only thing I could find that said Made in America was my Ramen Noodle Soup, so we are highly dependent upon other countries for our food supply and just about everything else.
It's true that we used to use coal in factories. Bush has brought that practice back. We fought hard to make environmental rules that protected families from that onslaught of coal smoke.
Chemicals and contaminants seem to abound in products today, even those we thought we had banished years ago. Lead in paint, for instance. But, as the richer classes become more important, and the Middle and Poor classes sink into oblivion, human life takes a back seat to profit.
2007-10-23 14:41:40 · answer #3 · answered by Me, Too 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Forever. Industry does not develop new contaminants. You are using the word contaminants incorrectly.
2007-10-20 20:09:48 · answer #4 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Till, new generations of contaminant loving organism naturally evolved. Yes, it is evolving.
2007-10-21 03:13:08 · answer #5 · answered by Dilip 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋