Optimism on the Environment...

Just in time for Earth Day, the American Enterprise Institute released it's 10th annual report on the state of the Environment. The full .pdf report is here.

In a nutshell:

• Air Pollution has fallen to the lowest level ever recorded.
• Mercury Emissions have declined by 45 percent during the 1990s, most of which is due to the phase-out of municipal and medical waste incineration.
• Forestland in the eastern half of the United States is increasing at a rate of one million acres a year.
• Wetlands continue to multiply, with a growth of 26,000 acres a year.
• Car Emissions, one of the largest contributors to air pollution, will be reduced by more than 80 percent over the next 25 years, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
• Toxic Releases have declined since 1988, a sign of increasing efficiency and the “de-materialization” of our economy.
• Global WarmingÂ’s “hockey-stick” graph, believed to be one of the leading indicators of global warming, is now being called “rubbish.” Scientists have shown that the graphÂ’s underlying equation would generate the same result for any series of random numbers.

So why the outcry over the Kyoto treaty? Because it's Lilliputian-like regulations would serve to tie down and economically damage the Gulliver-like hyperpower that is the United States.

Where did all the Marxist-Leninists go when the Soviet Union collapsed? They became enviro-whackos as an alternative outlet to try and put the brakes on Free-Market Capitalism.

Nice try, suckers!!

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