June 26th, 2010 - Barbara Feiner By S. David Freeman We keep
staring in frustration and anger at the giant flow of oil
spilling into the water in the Gulf of Mexico. It is a disaster.
But what is even a greater disaster is what we would see if we
looked up, rather than down, and opened our eyes to the millions
of deadly toxic “spills” into the air we breathe from cars,
trucks, buses, power plants, ships, oil refineries, etc. They
spill deadly poisons into the air we breathe every day. We are
more endangered than the birds and the fish in the Gulf. While
we are rightfully concerned about the wildlife, let’s wake up to
what we are breathing every day of our lives. And there is ample
scientific evidence to prove that the “spills” of pollution in
the air are just as deadly to human beings. We need to remind
ourselves that what we call smog is a witch’s brew of toxic
stuff far more deadly than crude oil. No matter what we burn,
whether its gasoline, coal, “clean diesel,” natural gas or
biodiesel, it creates tiny p