You wouldn’t live on top of or right next to this smokestack would you? During the morning coffee do you listen to the weather report and perhaps what the day’s pollution level will be? Don’t you hate those days when the level is high? Ever wonder what the source of that pollution is?
The automobile is a huge if not the largest single contributor to the muck that causes you to hide inside an air conditioned building. Those measurements are not taken from the source but are a general average over a larger area. So if you’re sitting in bumper to bumper traffic you are breathing air from the highest concentration source of pollution. The pollution level figures are irrelevant since your are sitting in a high level zone no matter what the general figures are. The AC and iPod are not helping anything except your attitude. You are in fact living on top of a smokestack.
[...] we drink. We talk so much about CO2 as if that is the only thing coming out of the tailpipe and smokestack. While we’re waiting for the seas to rise and the heat to bake us we are killing ourselves [...]