Televisions are informing us that scientists and environmentalists claim human pollution is causing potentially disastrous consequences decades down the road. Yet glossed over in the arguments about global warming is the immediate effect that vehicle exhausts, industry smokestack fallout, and poisoned streams and rivers have on us and corrective measures to curb them.

People don't need to hem and haw over the possibility that the ice caps will melt in the distant future, raise sea levels and drown humanity. The effects of pollution are already present and detrimental: buses and trucks spewing out loads of choking black smoke, sky-blocking clouds of chest tightening smog, and unfishable lifeless bodies of water are not questionable as to their cause or effect on our quality of life.

However, what we already know is not exciting enough so popular media latches on to a terrifying future of humanity drowning in water. Hollywood media joins the groundswell of fear mongering and churns out movies about future environmental disasters. Newsflash! Earth is already a disaster because of human exploitation and indifference.

Corrective measures to improve our quality of life and environmental surroundings have been available for centuries. We choose to ignore them in favor of hopping our blood pressure up from watching movie theater shows and evening news casts.

"To see a problem perfectly is too see the solution or answer within that same sight." -Unknown