Our View: Air quality is not somebody else's problem

There’s a few lines in Douglas Adams’ third “Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” book that deals with the idea of something being somebody else’s problem.

The idea Adams portrayed, somewhat comically, is that the brain will edit out things either critically alarming and dangerous or something so inconceivable that the mind can’t accept it, making that thing invisible because it’s somebody else’s problem.

At times, it seems this principal effects how critical issues are seen in Wyoming. Take the recent letter sent by Sweetwater County in regard to ozone regulations proposed by...