In the Western world all forms of pollution, other than greenhouse gases, are in decline

See ‘The Powerful Primate’ Review: An Energetic Evolution: From early on, what has set the human species apart from all others is the ability to direct ever-increasing power toward our ends by Gregg Easterbrook. He reviewed the book "The Powerful Primate: How Controlling Energy Enabled Us to Build Civilization" by Roland Ennos. Excerpts:

"In the Western world all forms of pollution, other than greenhouse gases, are in decline. U.S. emissions of greenhouse gases peaked in 2007 and have declined since, regardless of who’s in the White House. Last year the United Nations’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projected that total global greenhouse-gas emissions will peak in the next five to 10 years and enter long-term decline as solar, nuclear and natural gas come to dominate power production.

Air pollution in Beijing is down by about half compared to a decade ago. The notoriously smoggy air of Mexico City has gotten much clearer. Hannah Ritchie, the University of Oxford data scientist and author of “Not the End of the World” (2024), notes that China is “deploying clean energy technologies at home far faster than any other country.”"

"Nature is not a fixed permeance that we are, as he says, “damaging.” Nature is dynamic and ever-evolving. Many of its aspects would have changed whether we were here or not."

"already the trends are toward renewable power and less waste, including in mines and factories."