The nastier pollution about...

[stackmonkey]

As the climate change thread has reached its 100 page milestone, I though I'd go off on a tangent.

Shouldn't we as a global population we concentrating more on reducing emitted amounts of the really nasty chemicals out there?
There are so many REALLY damaging compounds being dumped to land/sea/air by so many industries and countries that are not so nearly regulated as here, I can't help think that we have the focus in entirely the wrong area? (much like road safety/speed cameras)

[ewenm]

Yes we should but it's much harder to generate a decent tax-take from that as it's relatively few people/companies that cause the nasty pollution.

CO2 is great because you can tax everyone for it.