Letters: Cloud of pollution hanging over the valley provides lessons

Published: Sunday, Jan. 27 2013 12:00 a.m. MST

Murky air from the inversion files the skies over Logan Tuesday morning, Jan. 22, 2013.

Mike Anderson, Deseret News

Summary

If there's a silver lining in the cloud of pollution hanging over the valley, it's that it becomes impossible to deny the toxins we're putting into the atmosphere — not just in January and February when we can physically taste them, but continuously throughout the year. For me, days of inversion also provide an unsettling object lesson. I find myself changing my routine from things I'd naturally do as a way of compensating for the poisonous surroundings. I can easily see how our living planet could be struggling to do the same. Our way out is to take personal responsibility to pollute less, to support scientists and entrepreneurs in their exploration of clean energy and to demand the same from elected leadership.

Matt Weed

Holladay

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Pagan

Salt Lake City, UT

Of course there are lesson.

But you cannot teach people, who refuse to listen until their loved ones start dying from athsma, COPD and lung cancer.

11:18 a.m. Jan. 27, 2013
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The Real Maverick

Orem, UT

What's more important?

Health and the environment or money?

Can you eat, drink, and breath money? Some people apparently think you can. Why else would our state leadership be so opposed to cleaning up our air and standing

11:48 a.m. Jan. 27, 2013
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Pops

NORTH SALT LAKE, UT

UBD is absolutely right, but didn't go far enough. A clean, vibrant environment is, if history is any indicator, dependent on economic vitality. By extension, economy-killing environmental moves will limit our ability to maintain a clean More..

8:17 p.m. Jan. 28, 2013
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