martha, your name says a lot about you you know, and your reference to the church lady dates you somewhat. you are the one in four that believe everything you see or hear without checking out anything for yourself. just that note in your hotel room is a giant leap forward, but, you seem so arrogant that you can't see it so you dont know it. i think the fifty most polluted cities in the 60s were all in the u.s. and developed europe and the soviet union. this was about the time western companies started shifting polluting jobs to poor countries. it worked. us and european demand for junk, cleaned up our cities but just shifted our pollution to asia, africa and south america, countries the west had been exploiting for their natural resources for centuries. we share the blame, each and every one of us that allowed it to happen. we stopped killing ourselves and began killing unknowing, innocent people in other countries for money. rah, rah for the good old u.s.of a.