Nashville Air Quality- Not Too Good
On the front page of the Tennessean today, is a story claiming that Nashville is among the nation’s worst carbon emitters. The source of the story is the liberal Brookings Institute. There is a possibility that this story is more about politics than anything else. I don’t know, but I do believe that the air quality in Nashville is not good.
When I used to get up at 5:00 AM and travel through Nashville, my eyes would literally burn some mornings, going down I40. Now this only happened in the mornings and only in the summer months. But it was so bad that I could not ride with the window down.
I never blamed lack of mass transit, air conditioners, or anything like that, like the article does. I just always assumed it was because the city is located in a kind of a bowl. When I first moved here, my allergies were terrible, and the doctor told me that was why. It makes sense that the same reasoning would apply to air pollution.