Max has really disgusted me.

[mburbank]

When I said Senior I was guessing high school, so I'm hardly off at all.

If by your undefined use of the word 'pollution' you mean coal based emissions over the city of London as defined by it's Industrial Revolution borders, then yes, you are absolutely right. How about if I take an equally arbitrarilly undefined dfinition and say that by pollution, I mean radiocative waste, and instead of London, I use the world. I think then, yes, there is some doubt that pollution has gone down since the Industrial Revolution.

But let me be more reasonable. By any standard at all Ocean Water and Ground water are far more polluted now. Mt. Everest is far more polluted now. All of China, Russia and south America. All of the United states with the possible exceptions of New York, Lowell Mass and a few parts of Pensylvania. What in God's name are you basing this inane assumption on and what are you building into it? Per capita population? Pollutants per person as divided by anual income? What do you mean by the environment as a whole? The biosphere? We did some very nasty things during the Industrial revolution, but there were a lot less of us, and even then the bulk of the world population wasn't industrialized. In addition, we've learned since then many creative new ways to pollute. Chemical pesticides , Gasoline additives, jet fule, oil spills etc.