The author’s main reasons to support his view are that cleaning the pollution up is easy, practical, and affordable, but diesel emissions still pose a danger to humans and the climate when state enforcement of diesel pollution rules is lacking (Paragraph 2 and 3).
In paragraph four and five, Carl Pope describes how diesel pollution poses a danger to humans and the climate by mentioning soot as the causes of respiratory diseases and cancer and including info on how diesel emissions is a climate disrupter and greenhouse gas. He ties it back to Californians in