According to Popular Science, visual appearance is what matters when assessing pollution. Now that the aesthetics are fixed, it's clean! The EPA fixed it. No mo

According to Popular Science, visual appearance is what matters when assessing pollution. Now that the aesthetics are fixed, it's clean! The EPA fixed it. No more pollution. That's a really tidy narrative. Meanwhile, back in objective reality, industrial pollution has been increasing rampantly. CO2 has been rising faster than our economic growth; now over 100 millions tons a day are being poured into the atmosphere. Take a minute to appreciate the sheer mass! But since it's invisible and non-noxious, it's easy to remain ignorant of it. The impacts are arguably worse than mid-1900s pollution in that the effects aren't just local, they're global and destabilizing our climate. If CO2 were visible, smelly, a solid, or liquid, we might view it much differently. But because we can't sense it directly, we just pretend it doesn't exist. Even scientific journalism falls for it apparently.