Frank, Redfish is right ! You are confusing pollution with Climate Change.
Nobody is suggesting that we just dump all the mercury, and toxic pollutants onto our lands and waterways....That will kill humans and wildlife, but it will not do much to harm the Earth.
Earth has survived for more than 4 billion years, and has gone through many dramatic climate changes, long before mankind ever existed.
Air pollution in and around or major cities is a bigger problem caused by man. Global warming is not caused by mankind. The increase in CO2 is caused by the warming of the oceans. The warming of the oceans is caused by hot spots under the oceans from the Earths molten center. That's what the weathermen are referring to when the speak about the El Nino. More than 70% of the CO2 in our atmosphere comes from the evaporation of the oceans. When the oceans warm, they release more CO2 into the atmosphere.
So to summarize, CO2 does not cause Global Warming, but Global Warming does cause an increase in the CO2 in the atmosphere. Most real scientist agree with this theory and completely explains Al Gore's theory of CO2 causing Global Warming. There is a link between CO2 and Global Warming, but Al Gore got it backwards and then tries to blame it on mankind.
...Rich