Exxon Will Probably Take Credit ...

Seeing the air quality in Beijing really brings home how lucky we are to have mostly clean, smog free air. The right loves to mock environmentalism and dismiss concern about the environment as some sort of irrational touchy feely nonsense. Yet if it wasn't for the efforts of hippies and environmentalists pushing for low emission vehicles, lead free gas, caps on coal plant emissions, and expanded public transportation, among other things, our air wouldn't be so different from the poisonous brew that clouds Beijing.