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I think polluters who don't filter out their particulates with 3M Filtrete
Brand filters or equivalents thereof should be taxed.
AMH
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Hi all:
I couldn't help but connect the following: national and state Democratic
mantra that the issue of gay marriage is 'distracting' us from key problems
like failed war on terrorism, unemployment, etc; our amazing ability on
this
list to stay with that issue; and today's dramatic air quality alert, along
with Andy Driscoll's question - anybody counting?
If anybody IS counting, we have had quite a few of these alerts in the past
two years. Indeed, depending on whose index or rating system you use,
Minneapolis/St Paul is either one of the worst or mid-range for air quality
in the entire country. Without question, nobody in environmental circles
is saying our air quality is good anymore.
In some ways, it's easy to zap off a post with opinions on gay/het
marriage.
These are philosophical and political and moral questions we feel we can
grapple with based on our individual/personal knowledge.
Pollution is another entire altogether. How to combat the plummet in air
quality our state has experienced the past few years? How to combat
industrial polluters? Far more difficult (and perhaps more important?) to
zap off a post on why we're experiencing such a dive and what to do about
it.
What are we going to do about air quality in the metro area? Ideas?
Anybody know how many 'alerts' we have had in the past year? Anybody
besides me notice the haze over the city today?
French philosospher Michel Foucault routinely asked: why does one question
appear rather than another?
Although I do grind my teeth atDemocratic assertions that constitutional
questions regarding marriage are only a diversion from failed Bush
administration problems and real issues facing the country, those
Democratics are onto something about the focus of national and local
political conversation.
Why focus on marriage? Are there more pressing issues for St. Paul? The
nation? Why this issue -- framed in astoundingly archaic and fear-based
terms -- and not another? Is pollution a more pressing local and national
issue? Unemployment? Racism?
Lots of different issues, but regardless of rhetoric and political
strategy:
the air quality in the twin cities is a pressing issue for citizens of this
city and one that we ignore at our own peril.
Mary Petrie
Mounds Park
Mary Petrie
Mounds Park
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