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Up here in Maine...we have global wetting.
You do have a point, in that pollution is worth cleaning up and controlling. See the Cuyahoga River that caught fire in the 70's in Cleveland, Ohio.What's actually going on is that pollution destabilizes ecosystems on a small scale locally, which results in the migration (read: extinction) of animal populations, further limiting biodiversity, causing selection pressure on viruses, bacteria and other harmful organisms to adapt to new hosts. This eventually results in humans getting more, potentially devastating diseases and a general destruction of animal populations (which sucks).
Furthermore, greenhouse gasses may not increase or decrease the temperature of the world as a whole, but it may change weather patterns and ocean currents--the effects of which are unpredictable but probably most harmful (in the form of droughts, floods and storms) to the poorest people in the world (south asian coastline villages, Africa, South America). This is why intelligent people have stopped calling it 'Global Warming' and have instead opted for the less frightening, though more accurate, 'Climate Change'.
Eleven years is not a timescale we should be interested in, Pale Rider--the rate of pollution is still increasing, and the effects of that pollution will be exponential over maybe 100 years. Is that a long time? Yes, but not that long to destroy a planet.