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Oh, yes
nothing,
and then it gets hazy around here
but they're really,
we don't have a big problem with it.
I think that, uh, what most of the people here in New York state are going after right now is,
it's, it's the, uh, ongoing acid rain problem.
Especially out in the, uh, uh, Adirondack areas where, you know, the lakes are becoming, uh, changing the acidity of the lakes
and we're having problems now because the fish are dying and certain acidic loving plants, uh, or alkaline liking plants are not lasting anymore because the soil levels, the p H is changing as this acid rain continues to fall.
Right.
And I know that there's been battles over the states up here.
Uh, you know, Governor Mario going after, you know, governors of Ohio and and Indiana to fix what's going on down there.
I remember when I was in Florida,
the only problem was that it seemed like it may,
it wasn't really pollution, just the steamy weather <laughter>.
Oh absolutely,
yeah,
just muggy.
So, yes
I think,
yeah,
I think you're right.
Our most pollute substance down here is just water.
But I I, I, I think, you know, the biggest causes even then a lot of times are, uh, uh, like when I was up in Boston just all the cars.
You know, just all over the place.
Yeah
it,
You just got a lot of, you know, a lot of pollution from those
and, uh, you know, if you don't have a wind, it sticks around.
Oh, yeah.
I, you know, I was in Boston once
and I remembered seeing some of these things coming through at rush hour, even with the Tee.
Uh, just this, it looked like billions of cars massing
Absolutely.
and if they sit there and then there's nowhere for the air to go.
I mean, yeah, that's what's in, you know, Los Angeles is,
I think that's biggest problem
because when I was in Los Angeles for a time, it's all, you know, from Los Angeles to San Diego it's like all city.
Right.
And there's really, there's nowhere for this to be absorbed, really.
Uh, tree planting sometimes can handle, you know, stopping some of the air pollution and that and help
but if you have nowhere to do anything.
That's, that's very true.
Uh, you know, of course then when, when you're not recycling, you've got these incendiary plants and stuff, that can give you some pretty disgusting stuff going up in the atmosphere.
But I, you know, you've got, you've got the industry,
you've got that,
and you got the cars.
I think the cars are where, where it's at right now as far as pollution goes, air pollution I mean.
Yeah.
I, you know, Florida doesn't seem to be, at least maybe Miami,
but I, I, uh, you know,
Fort Lauderdale I, I don't know what the big industries are down there, uh,
but, you know, up here we have Kodak
Right.
and that's the worst polluter.
They put, uh, uh,
you can smell ether in the air sometimes
It keeps the neighborhoods happy I guess.
I guess so.
Uh, cause they clean the, uh, the lenses for cameras
and they, they make film here
and they're the worst offender
but it's, you know, it's under so much control.
You know, sulphur dioxide is the big emittant from them
but that's really getting under control now.
Right.
I, you know, I don't know in air what they do.
Uh, I, I haven't run across any major pollutants down there that I've, I've really seen a lot of, you know, about.
Uh, I, I know I've seen like, uh,
my grandparents live in Corpus Christi, Texas
and I know they've, there's a lot of refineries down there
and that, that's some pretty potent stuff they put up in the air.
I, but I don't know how, uh, you know,
there's a difference in what you can smell and what you, uh, you know, what's bad.
Be interesting to see when, as Mexico develops industrially whether, you know, without,