And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. <\/i><\/p>\n
\u2014Revelation 9:2<\/i><\/p>\n
4427<\/b> Polluting Air And Sea<\/b><\/p>\n
Pollutants are the residues of things we used and threw away. The unfortunate thing is that as the earth becomes crowded, there is no longer any place to throw away anything and therefore the trashbasket of the world becomes the air above or the sea below. <\/p>\n
4428<\/b> Solid Wastes In U. S. <\/b><\/p>\n
Solid wastes cast off by U. S. municipalities and industries now add up to 360 million tons a year. If wastes from agriculture, mining and other areas are included, the total is estimated at 3.5 billion tons. <\/p>\n
4429<\/b> The Individual American<\/b><\/p>\n
Meet the average American: \u201cEvery year he will leave in his wake his share of the 20 million tons of paper, 48 billion cans and 26 billion bottles that litter the land. He will personally pollute three million gallons of water in a year. He will pour enormous amounts of gases into the air from his car and other machines. <\/p>\n
\u201cMeasured in terms of destructive effect on the environment, biologist Wayne David estimates that 1 American is equivalent to at least 25 citizens of India. Figuring in this way, 205 million Americans are now putting a drain on the resources of the earth that would take 5 billion Indians to duplicate. And by the same reckoning, our population growth is far more dangerous to the survival of future generations than the much higher rate of China or Mexico.\u201d<\/p>\n
4430<\/b> Removing Billboards<\/b><\/p>\n
The Highway Beautification Act of 1965 authorized a program to ban \u201cvisual pollution\u201d from federal highways in non-commercial and non-industrial areas. <\/p>\n
The total number of signs removed by the end of 1976 was about one-half the 800,000 billboards to be removed. Out of the 315 million dollars in federal funds obligated to be spent under the Act, more than 221 million had been spent. <\/p>\n
4431<\/b> Several Environmental Acts<\/b><\/p>\n
America, in launching its big cleanup of the environment, also passed the Environmental Policy Act in 1969. This requires each federal agency to consider the impact of any large development on the nation\u2019s natural resources. <\/p>\n
Then came the 1970 Clean Air Act with its five-year cleanup period, and the 1972 Clean Water Act with its ten-year period. Initial spendings however have shown that total costs may be at least three times what was originally projected. <\/p>\n
4432<\/b> Cleanup\u2019s Total Price Tag<\/b><\/p>\n
The total price tag for cleaning up America\u2019s environment\u2014originally estimated to be 70 billion dollars\u2014may reach up to 224 billion over a ten-year period, as follows:<\/p>\n
To fight air pollution \u2026$146.9 billion<\/p>\n
To fight water pollution \u2026$55.8 billion<\/p>\n
To fight noise pollution &elips$9.0 billion<\/p>\n
To fight solid-waste, radiation, and other pollutions \u2026$12.0 billion<\/p>\n
4433<\/b> Anybody Give A Hoot? <\/b><\/p>\n
For 26 years, Smokey the Bear has been a uniquely successful advertising gimmick to remind Americans about the dangers of forest fires. Now the Federal Government wants to spread the word about pollution. <\/p>\n
The U. S. Forest Service has come up with Woodsy the Owl, presumably a wise and likeable bird whose message, \u201cGive a Hoot, Don\u2019t Pollute,\u201d may have a good chance of reaching children; they in turn might be counted on to badger their parents about littering and similar offences. <\/p>\n
4434<\/b> Unusual Collection In Church<\/b><\/p>\n
The collection\u2014surely one of the most unusual ever taken in a church\u2014stretched beyond the two pulpits, out two side doors, and down a corridor. The \u201ctake\u201d weighed nearly a ton; it was inspired by a church-school class on ecology and a young women\u2019s adult study group. <\/p>\n
The choir, in black and white robes, marched over and around stacks of bottles\u2014whisky bottles and pop bottles and baby-food jars \u2026 relish and rug cleaner, beer and beets. \u2026 <\/p>\n
The Reverend Dwight S. Large, pastor of Detroit\u2019s Central Methodist Church, explained it all in his sermon: \u201cWe live in a moment of history when people choose death, poisoning the air and water with chemicals, and destroying the earth with sewage, pesticides, and trash. Each year we dump 28 billion bottles and 48 billion cans.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMore important,\u201d he continued, \u201caction by every church and temple \u2026 might call attention to the fact that trash glass can be recycled and thus used and reused again and again.\u201d The bottles were destined for a collection station in Ann Arbor, then crushing, melting, and reuse. <\/p>\n
\u2014Christianity Today<\/i><\/p>\n
4435<\/b> First Prize To \u201cPick It Up!\u201d Poster<\/b><\/p>\n
Upon accepting an honorary doctorate from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburg, black artist Romare Bearden commented that Pittsburgh is the only place he ever won a prize\u2014and he owed that to the acumen of his grandmother. He was a schoolboy at the time, living with his grandparents. \u201cThere was a poster contest,\u201d he said, \u201cin connection with a cleanup campaign. I started a poster, full of smokestacks, open-hearth furnaces and Bessemers, all pouring smoke into the Pittsburgh sky. My grandmother looked at it and said, \u2019That will never win a prize. You need Mrs. Rooney. \u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cMrs. Rooney was a super at a building near us. We kids used to sit on her steps, and when we got too noisy, she\u2019d come out with her mop and chase us. If we left any trash, she\u2019d shout, \u201cPick it up!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I drew Mrs. Rooney, as seen from below, mop in one hand, pointing sternly with the other, with the title: \u201cPICK IT UP!\u201d First prize!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Selected<\/p>\n
See also:<\/b> Ecology. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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