Paris on fire

[Catfish]

Originally Posted by Skybird

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Hehe, I once were like you, and talked in this way myself, too. More than ten years ago. And that was bck then already ten years and more after the apocalypse described to be coming from the soar rain.

Heh where's Reece when you need him. I guess you mean sour, and then again acid?




You know why we do not have acid rain ?
Because of filters and changed conditions of production, forced by government regulation:

"[...] it is that acid rain went away because we curbed our sulfur dioxide emissions. Under the United States Environmental Protection Agency's (USEPA) Acid Rain Program, Title IV of the Clean Air Act, the government established a cap regulating the amount of sulfur we could emit, in an effort to reduce emissions to 10M tons below 1980 levels.

Companies themselves could decide how to manage under those restrictions, either by switching fuels or developing new processes that emitted less sulfur. They also had the option to buy pollution allowances from other companies whose emissions were below the regulated cap. The cap placed on each company was lowered over time.

As the caps were lowered, the allowances became more and more expensive. This created a strong new market and further enticed companies to switch to less polluting processes and energy sources.

This cap and trade program achieved 100% compliance in reducing sulfur dioxide emissions and was enforced in two phases. Phase I began in 1995 and 445 electricity plants reduced emissions by almost 40% below the required cap. Phase II, which began in 2000, had even more stringent policies.

Overall, the companies that have participated in the program have reduced sulfur dioxide emissions 22% below the mandated levels. [...]"

http://mentalfloss.com/article/18940...ened-acid-rain

https://www.britannica.com/science/acid-rain/History


So the "prophecies" regarding acid rain did not become reality because we did something against it. This obviously has an effect.

Europe and the EU has had its own regulations to cut emissions.
Of course you can again say if we do it and the Chinese don't, the global effect is not good enough and so on. Ok so let's do nothing and have smog and forests like in Beijing?