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College (Station, Texas
Thursday, February 5, 1970
THE BATTALION CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle
Guest Opinion
On The Environment
By Bill Voigt
Editor’s Note: Bill Voigt is
coordinator for the Symposium
for Environmental Awareness,
a student-faculty group plan
ning to participate in the na
tionwide ‘Environmental Teach-
In’ scheduled for April 22. Here,
he states his case for the need
for personal commitment to
solve the problems of pollu
tion:
In the sixties, the human race
began a journey into outer space;
that journey will continue, and as
it does the human spirit will ex
pand. But in the seventies, man
must turn inward. He must learn
to control himself. The problem
of bringing population and envi
ronment into balance transcends
and encompasses all other prob
lems. Lately the newspapers and
magazines have carried articles
predicting that we have any
where from 10 to 50 years left
to live. That we will have to
wear gas masks and live in doom
ed cities. Will we have to?
Let’s look at the news:
The Apollo 10 astronauts easily
picked out Los Angeles from hun
dreds of miles out. They could
see the blotch of ugly, cancer-
colored smog of 4,000,000 cars
vomiting cancer-causing gases,
16 million tires vaporizing deadly
asbestos particles, and the new
polychlorinated hydro-carbons on
to the pavements, into the atmos
phere and into the sea. In Cali
fornia they not only breathe the
air, they can see it coming.
Sign on Los Angeles school
room, bulletin: Warning!! Do not
exercise strenuously or breathe
too deeply during heavy smog
conditions? ? ?
How does smog effect man?
Chronic bronchitis is seven times
higher than it was ten years ago.
Lung cancer is twice as prevalent
in the cities as it is in the rural
areas. Bronchial asthma and em
physema are up eight times in
the last ten years. One day’s
breathing of New York’s smog
is equivalent to smoking five
packages of cigarettes. It is an
ticipated that before many years
have passed, ten thousand people
will die daily of pollution.
Up in the Lake Arrowhead area
(Los Angeles, California) about
10 percent of the Ponderosa pines,
1,300,000 trees, are dying as the
result of smog.
What’s Happening to Our Wa
ter?
Plankton are microscopic plants
which serve two purposes. First,
plankton, microscopic sea—-ani
mals, are the base of the whole
fish food chain from anchovies to
whales. What Whales? Without
plankton there would be no fish.
Secondly, plankton provide 70 per
cent of the earth’s oxygen. It
takes only 11 ppm of DDT in wa
ter to kill off the plankton. No
oxygen, no fish. Already this is
happening in the estuarial areas
close to land.
The Potomac is a sewer for
every town it passes. It is dry
ing up and its ancient historic
bones are now desecrating the
scene. Its mudflats are now show
ing, covered with garbage, old
tires, junk, and human sewage.
During cherry blossom time, it
is the best-dressed cesspool in
America.
Lake Erie, 10,000 square miles,
is biologically dead. Zero oxy
gen. Beaches are unsafe, algae
coats the bodies of swimmers, and
piles up in foul smelling reefs
at the shoreline. Fishing once a
major industry is all but gone.
Congressman Blatnik of Min
nesota, author of the Water Pol
lution Bill, points out that on the
banks of the Mississippi, down
below St. Louis, there axe signs
warning picknickers not to eat
their lunch on or near the bank
of the river. The spray from the
river contains typhoid, colitic,
hepatitis, and tuberculosis.
Here is another good example
of ignorance and indifference in
some public leaders. Instead of
cleaning up the pollution, they
shove it on down the river—chem
icals, industrial crud, slaughter
house waste, and human sewage
on down the river. Thanks once
again for a good job done, for
poisoning the drinking water and
destroying recreational areas
along America’s rivers.
In the past when man abused
his environment he had a choice.
He didn’t have to die. He could
migrate. Today there is no place
to which we can migrate. We
have only one choice left. Con
trol our population, conserve our
plant and animal life, or die.
Adlai Stevenson once said: “We
travel together, passengers on a
little spaceship — dependable on
its vulnerable reserves of air and
soil; all committed for our safety
to its security and peace preserv
ed from annihilation only by the
care, the work, and the love we
give our fragile craft.”
It is time to create greater
awareness of the problems of
overpopulation and environmen
tal deterioration, to identify real
istic goals for action and to stim
ulate cooperate activities between
various segments of society.
Get well,
President Rudder.'
Bulletin Board
TONIGHT
A&M Polo Club will meet at
7:30 p.m. in Room 203 Animal
Science Building.
San Angelo-West Texas Home
town Club will plan spring
activities at 7:30 p.m. Room 2B
MSC.
Environmental Teach-In plan
ners will decide upon final objec
tives for a spring Symposium for
Environmental Awareness at
A&M at 7:30 p.m. in the Archi
tecture Auditorium. Students and
faculty are invited to attend and
contribute.
FRIDAY
MSC Chess Committee will
meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 3B
MSC.
MONDAY
Iota Lambda Sigma will hear
Dr. Irving Goldstein speak on
forest products at 7 p.m. in Room
107, M.E. Shops.
Campus Committee of Concern
will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the
Coffee Loft, UCCF.
Lubbock-South Plains Home
town Club will meet at Ralph’s
Pizza at East Gate at 6:30 p.m.
TUESDAY
Student Psychological Associa
tion will view the film, “People
Who Care,” at 7 p.m. in Nagle
Hall.
WEDNESDAY
Army Cadet Wives’ Club will
plan semester activities at 7:30
p.m. in the Blue Flame Room,
Lone Star Gas Co., Bryan.
Chemistry Wives Club will
have a Stanley Party at 7:30 p.m.
in the Party Room of the Casa
Del Sol Apartments.
Nixon Orders Pollution
By Stan Benjamin
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON UP)—President
Nixon said Wednesday he is giv
ing federal agencies three years
and $359 million to stop polluting
the air and water.
It already has been federal pol
icy to conform with existing air
and water quality standards, but
Nixon said previous orders were
“ambiguously worded, poorly en
forced, and generally ineffective.”
Nixon issued an executive or
der requiring all federal facilities
—including “buildings, installa
tions, structures, public works,
equipment, aircraft, vessels, and
other vehicles and property”—to
complete or at least begin neces
sary pollution abatement actions
by Dec. 31, 1972, at the latest.
Agency heads were ordered to
send their plans for meeting that
deadline to the Budget Bureau by
next June 30.
Funds appropriated to clean up
federal pollution may not be used
for any other purpose, Nixon or
dered.
Undersecretary of the Interior
Russell E. Train, chairman-desig
nate of the President’s Environ
mental Quality Council, told
newsmen the federal budget pro
posed Monday for fiscal 1971 in
cluded $92 million as the first
segment of Nixon’s $359 million
program against federal pollution
—$40 million from “reprogram
ing” of Defense Department
ey and $52 million spread among
the budgets of other agencies.
By comparison, Train said, the
funds appropriated for federal
pollution abatement in fiscal
1968, 1969 and 1970 together to
taled $129 million and not all of
that reached its goal.
Nixon said in a statement,
“Over the past several years, the
federal government has become
one of the nation’s worst pol
luters.”
Train declined to estimate just
how bad. Nationwide, he said,
the federal contribution to air and
water pollution might be a small
fraction, “but in specific local
situations it could be quite seri
ous.”
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