Quote from Ricter:
What about mercury, is it "arrogant" to think we can create global scale problems for human health with such a tiny element?
Clearly man can create localized environmental problems with dangerous chemicals and pollutants. That's why there are all of the superfund sites that need to be cleaned up.
It's a big step to attempt to claim that man introduced so much mercury across the planet that the entire earth is effectively destroyed and unlivable for man-kind. Similarly it is absurd to claim that the small amount of CO2 released by man's industrial processes in comparison to all the CO2 released naturally by the planet - has any significant impact on the warming or cooling of the earth.
