In Sunday's paper we have another example of a "you said it" discussing the author's perceived issue with agricultural burning in the area.
The reason we highlight this is because it is indicative of the hyper awareness that has arisen due to misinterpretation of what is actually harmful in our environment.
Pressure groups are happy to make citizens believe that everything in the world around them to some degree is dangerous and destructive or has an ill effect on their health.
Like the global warming religious experience which is largely being seen now, as at best overhyped and at worst something of a snake oil situation; the idea that every bit of smoke in the air will somehow trigger asthma, emphysema, rickets, scurvy or Australian blinking disease is a sad example of the extreme exaggeration of harm in the world around us.
The things that were once merely irritating and perhaps even useful are now sold as deadly. The environmental lobby would like you to believe that everything that makes one even momentarily uncomfortable or that one can see in the air is at least damaging if not deadly. Farmer burning a field -- you get sick; car wreck with a little antifreeze in the street -- environmental catastrophe.
This amplification of damage is many times a calculated effort to obtain control over government and persons, giving the complainers the power of veto over the populace and if many of the steps are taken in state and local government that have been proposed; that veto will become dictation.
