It's surprising that the U.S. is on here, given how bad our pollution is in the cities. I guess the amount of rural areas with less pollution offsets that?
yes. this. One thing that foreigners, including many Europeans, comment on when talking to me about their impression of the United States when they visited is how incredibly clean everything is. Like my ex's mother from Romania who went and bought new white sneakers, walked around outside for a day in them, and just couldn't stop talking about how the bottoms of her sneaker were still white. The US has excellent water and air quality and the water from the tap is among the best in the world, too. It wasn't always this way. It was a hard long road to progress that the country made from the 1960s/70s. And it won't last if Trump has anything to say about it.
Yes the USA is one of the top countries in many categories. Sadly the media and many top academics/left wingers seem to demonize it and its capitalist 'evils'.
Well, the level of air pollution and general cleanliness in Europe varies A LOT. I didn't find US really special in that regard. What this quiz is about is also just one indicator of polution, if I got it right it's not even about all AIR pollution (gases...).
Another thing is that as a huge country it still has a big share of world pollution and a small policy change can have big influence, while nobody cares what exactly Luxembourg is doing about that.
kalbahamut...Why do you always have to bring politics in your comments ? This is a game site...not a political site. Anyway, it is 2019 and the environmental quality is still high under Trump
The same "Trump is destroying our environment" mantra. Trump is against overreaching regulations that serve more to pad lobbyists and politicians' pockets than to clean up our environment. As far as "green" policies go, if you follow the money, it always ends up back with politicians and companies that capitalize on them with new products. There is much more work to be done, but until politicians can find a way to fix the problems without wasteful spending and ill-conceived regulations that don't really do anything to help, things will just stay the same. Don't get me wrong, we have passed some very helpful regulations in the past, but they most always cost the tax payer more than it should.
It's not a mantra you braying livestock. Trump's first pick to head the EPA was pro-fracking Scott Pruitt, who made his career suing the EPA. Then he nominated Andrew Wheeler, a coal-lobbyist. And people are ignorant enough to believe that he's really worried about padding lobbyists' pockets. His administration if FULL of lobbyists, and the wrong kind of lobbyists too, the ones who want to dismantle or destroy the agencies they are heading up to enrich their donors no matter what it costs our environment, our world, our kids. The administration has worked hard to suppress or erase any data the US scientific community has on climate change, taking us from a position of leadership to a position of irrelevance. They've done everything they possibly could to move the country in the exact wrong direction. Wake up. Get some different news sources.
Wow, quite the inflamed comment section. Seems to happen whenever the US is portrayed as anything other than the Great Satan. Anyway, in this case the facts speak for themselves...our economy is booming, stocks are at an all-time high, we're more respected by our allies and feared by our enemies, ISIS is all but obliterated, North Korea is on its way to denuclearizing, taxes have been cut successfully across the board, everyone is hiring...and for the purposes of this quiz, our air quality has continued to improve dramatically. According to the EPA, since 1990 levels of carbon monoxide have decreased by 77%, lead by 80%, and sulfur dioxide by a whopping 88%, to name just a few examples. "During this same period," they say, "the US economy continued to grow, Americans drove more miles and population and energy use increased." This great trend has not reversed or even slowed since Trump took office. Capitalism is the answer. I welcome anyone to refute with facts anything I just said.
"respected by our allies" - do you have any clue about the outside world? As someone from a country that is allied with the US, this claim is so ridiculous and removed from reality. Your country's reputation is in shambles, in large parts due to your president.
You really don't see the heavy blankets of smog over U.S. cities like you used to. Los Angeles sometimes, but it used to be very common in a big city to look down from a tall building and see the others poking up through the haze with no hint of the ground to be seen.
It's liberal environmentalist propaganda. Citizens here love to apologize for being successful, and love to hate themselves for destroying the planet, even though we as a nation do more to help the planet than most countries. The 55% doesn't surprise me one bit. I have visited countries like Brazil where pollution is a huge problem. The people who think we in the US have big problems have most likely not traveled to a developing country.
I'm surprised that Australia made this list, because the quiz on worst polluted countries includes a lot of desert countries as they count sand as particles people are exposed to.
Still seems odd. On the quiz about countries with the worst air pollution there are a lot of countries with large deserts because of the sand particles in the air.
Luxembourg being on this list with it's fairly high population density and sitting right in the middle of Belgium's, Germany's and France's industrial belts is really surprising!
Luxembourg being on this list with it's fairly high population density and sitting right in the middle of Belgium's, Germany's and France's industrial belts is really surprising!
Luxembourg being on this list with it's fairly high population density and sitting right in the middle of Belgium's, Germany's and France's industrial belts is really surprising!
I think the list of countries with missing data should be clearly listed in the description after the title. I spent too long trying every tiny island country one by one.
Another thing is that as a huge country it still has a big share of world pollution and a small policy change can have big influence, while nobody cares what exactly Luxembourg is doing about that.