If it is true that the planet is moving toward an environmental Armageddon, as many respected scientists believe, the politicians and people of America and most of the rest of the world are in frightful denial. I cannot otherwise explain the way in which the state acted in the case of Rodel Inc. of Newark, to deny the public information on the outcome of its investigation into allegedly toxic emission from the plant. It suggests that Delaware's Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control is a prime mover in what many Delawareans see as government coverup. Delaware's anti-pollution laws have not been effective because they were decriminalized out of the starting gate. The scientific community finally has acknowledged that global warming is real.
Many scientists believe the warming is being accelerated by air pollution.
We already have been warned to expect shoreline flooding, widespread droughts, deadlier tornadoes, more El Ninos and La Ninas. In the past, man has seen forests turned into savannahs and lush savannahs into deserts. The coming of the industrial age was not the first time in history that human activity has caused changes in the planet's environment. Since humans turned from hunting and gathering to agriculture more than 3,000 years ago, members of the species have had a hand in degrading the planet. On a far smaller scale than in recent centuries, forests have been replaced by grasslands, grasslands by deserts, rivers by dry creek beds.