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muriel_volestrangler

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8. People generally think they know what pollution is
Thu Dec 29, 2016, 02:11 PM
Dec 2016

Normally, it'll be something visible, or that you can smell. With carbon dioxide being neither, and something that is naturally in the atmosphere but at a lower amount, you really have to understand how it causes warming to accept it as 'pollution' (and with other greenhouse gases, you might get them to think of them as pollution - methane being flammable probably helps - but their amounts are small, and that means further difficulty in getting them seen as a problem). So I'm not sure that just using the word would make much difference to people's understanding or willingness to act.

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