- Series
- Pollution explosion
- Air Date
- 1968-02-02
- Duration
- 00:28:18
- Episode Description
- This program presents a variety of speeches, music clips, and commentary to analyze the pollution problem in the United States.
- Series Description
- A discussion of environment-related issues.
- Subject(s)
- Creator(s)
- Westinghouse Broadcasting Company (Producer)Group W Productions (Producer)
- Contributors
- Genre(s)
- Geographic Region(s)
- regions
- Time Period
- 1961-1970
[00:05 - 00:09]
National Educational radio presents the following program in cooperation with a group
[00:09 - 00:12]
w the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company
[00:12 - 00:28]
logo.
[00:28 - 00:33]
Sounds like bass immortalizing a river or a mountain stream have become a part of our
[00:33 - 00:37]
American heritage. In most towns rivers and lakes played major
[00:37 - 00:42]
roads in the economy and recreation of the people living along their back
[00:42 - 00:47]
the generations of children from liked in the waters whole heroes like
[00:47 - 00:53]
emerge from their adventures some dead men courted their sweethearts on the rivers
[00:53 - 00:58]
and industry and transport with no thought of tomorrow dependent
[00:58 - 01:02]
upon the abundant waters to build the American way of
[01:02 - 01:11]
Los Lobos.
[01:11 - 01:16]
Today we live well in these United States. But the day of
[01:16 - 01:21]
reckoning has finally come for the old male's dream a century
[01:21 - 01:25]
of neglect. Has resulted in the water pollution which now prevents
[01:25 - 01:28]
affluent Americans from enjoying their heritage.
[01:28 - 01:37]
Group W the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company presents the pollution
[01:37 - 01:42]
explosion a 10 part study of the rising tide of air and water pollution
[01:42 - 01:43]
in America.
[01:43 - 01:47]
Your commentator.
[01:47 - 01:52]
During the last century Americans lived in an age of political and technological
[01:52 - 01:57]
innocence and the myriad problems of today's urbanized society are
[01:57 - 02:01]
partially the result. Certainly air and water pollution are direct
[02:01 - 02:05]
descendants of the innocent belief that air and water could go on
[02:05 - 02:09]
absorbing man's wastes indefinitely.
[02:09 - 02:13]
Today people all over the country are seeing sites like this
[02:13 - 02:18]
unhappy citizen describe river water itself is
[02:18 - 02:23]
strikingly different than say ocean water or pure a lake water.
[02:23 - 02:28]
It takes brilliance coloring
[02:28 - 02:31]
from the residue of factories.
[02:31 - 02:35]
And then there is that beautiful rarefied fresh
[02:35 - 02:39]
American air. The song writers and poets still tell us about it.
[02:39 - 02:56]
The pollution of our water and air and in some respects our very land has
[02:56 - 03:01]
grown to such proportions that if it is not stopped. America the most bountiful
[03:01 - 03:06]
country on earth may in the simplest of terms actually run out of
[03:06 - 03:11]
breathable air and usable water in certain areas. Dr
[03:11 - 03:16]
Steven Ayres of New York City St. Vincent Hospital who was also president of the
[03:16 - 03:21]
Manhattan branch New York state's action for clean air suggests
[03:21 - 03:25]
what New York City might be like in the future if its current air pollution
[03:25 - 03:26]
problem isn't checked.
[03:26 - 03:32]
If you want to see how things will be here in 1970 just take a trip to
[03:32 - 03:37]
London. Because England is a country in which some 60 million
[03:37 - 03:41]
people live on a piece of real estate the size of the state of Ohio
[03:41 - 03:46]
or of their air pollution is therefore concentrated in a very small area
[03:46 - 03:52]
and in London. Air pollution is a terrible problem. The climate is Ret.
[03:52 - 03:56]
and humid and this combination of a high degree of air pollution
[03:56 - 04:01]
and a great deal of weather difficulty has led to an increase of the
[04:01 - 04:06]
SEMA and bronchitis that is ten times what it is in the United
[04:06 - 04:11]
States. And more important young children in London and England in
[04:11 - 04:15]
general have a high incidence of bronchitis and the seamen were
[04:15 - 04:20]
fearful that if we don't take rather stringent control measures now
[04:20 - 04:25]
we will be in the said shape of the Londoners in 10 or 15 years.
[04:25 - 04:31]
And equally frightening prospect exists in the area of pure water.
[04:31 - 04:36]
Maine Senator Edmund Das musky who is chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on air
[04:36 - 04:40]
and water pollution has learned a great deal about the dangers of water pollution
[04:40 - 04:44]
contends that our waters must be protected.
[04:44 - 04:49]
There just isn't that much water to go around. The idea that we
[04:49 - 04:54]
we have a choice between jobs and pickerel for example a phrase that.
[04:54 - 04:59]
It was Karen not too long ago. It's false. We
[04:59 - 05:04]
need a policy which would be useful for birth
[05:04 - 05:08]
because we cannot do with less.
[05:08 - 05:13]
In the last 10 years. Recognition of this problem that we might run
[05:13 - 05:17]
out of clean air and water has brought the beginnings of the massive restart of
[05:17 - 05:22]
action that will be needed. The federal government has taken the initiative with
[05:22 - 05:27]
abatement legislation money and research. But as President Johnson
[05:27 - 05:30]
has explained the ultimate victory.
[05:30 - 05:35]
Reclaiming this portion of our national heritage. Really
[05:35 - 05:40]
rests in the hands of all the people of America. Yes
[05:40 - 05:46]
the government here in Washington. Much of the money.
[05:46 - 05:52]
Some of the imagination. Much of the effort.
[05:52 - 05:58]
Must be generated at the local level. And then.
[05:58 - 06:04]
And really only then. Well this blueprint for victory.
[06:04 - 06:06]
Becomes victory in fact.
[06:06 - 06:10]
What do we need for the future in our war against pollution. First
[06:10 - 06:15]
one is Colonel Alvin F. Maier chairman of the Defense Department's Pollution Control
[06:15 - 06:16]
Committee.
[06:16 - 06:20]
We need more than just paper legislation that
[06:20 - 06:26]
concerns me is that emphasis on a bike.
[06:26 - 06:33]
Can result in two things.
[06:33 - 06:38]
Iraq application and the research development and
[06:38 - 06:43]
evaluation and secondly the generation in the public
[06:43 - 06:48]
consciousness that simply by passing the laws and getting some of the bill
[06:48 - 06:53]
waste debate would work the problem is them so that I don't have to worry about.
[06:53 - 06:59]
This is the real hazard awareness that this is
[06:59 - 07:02]
not necessarily the problem.
[07:02 - 07:07]
We must have laws obviously to ensure at least the bare bones of
[07:07 - 07:11]
pollution cleanup. But hand in hand with the laws must go the
[07:11 - 07:16]
technology to accomplish their requirements. Right now there is some worry
[07:16 - 07:21]
that our abatement measures have outstripped our ability to implement them.
[07:21 - 07:26]
But can we wait for further knowledge John Barnhill deputy commissioner of the federal
[07:26 - 07:31]
water pollution control administration says as a result no
[07:31 - 07:36]
Remeron have all the technical and scientific knowledge we need to solve all the
[07:36 - 07:41]
problems and pollution that we have a considerable amount.
[07:41 - 07:46]
But at the same time we do have a considerable knowledge of the pollution problems a reasonably
[07:46 - 07:51]
old one and whatever however low gear it might have been in the
[07:51 - 07:56]
past we still develop some knowledge and there is a good deal we
[07:56 - 07:59]
can do based on our present technology.
[07:59 - 08:03]
We believe that within 10 years or so it will be possible to treat any race
[08:03 - 08:09]
economically to the point where it simply will not put the you know it
[08:09 - 08:13]
won't. Once it's been treated that water will be of such a quality that can be
[08:13 - 08:17]
used correctly. Actually we see emerging today.
[08:17 - 08:25]
Polluted water in a number of parts of the country and.
[08:25 - 08:29]
I've seen one of our research scientists literally drink
[08:29 - 08:34]
Reder which was representing purified sewage effluent
[08:34 - 08:40]
actually the water was in better quality after the after the purification
[08:40 - 08:45]
rise when and when it went into the into the faucets in the first
[08:45 - 08:50]
place. And I think this is a highly experimental thing as yet
[08:50 - 08:55]
but it represents the kind of accomplishment that we can see lying
[08:55 - 09:00]
ahead in the kind of area in which we can solve not only the
[09:00 - 09:05]
pollution problems that we have but the problems of water short areas such as the Southwest.
[09:05 - 09:10]
That last voice was Dr. Alan Hirsch program plan I have for the
[09:10 - 09:14]
F.W. PCa. He agrees however when Mr. Biden
[09:14 - 09:19]
emphasizes that even though this advanced technology may be only a
[09:19 - 09:23]
scant 10 years away there's nothing to be gained whatsoever except
[09:23 - 09:27]
disaster and not applying what we know now.
[09:27 - 09:32]
If we wait until we have the perfect answer. We'll be swimming in our own
[09:32 - 09:32]
muck.
[09:32 - 09:37]
The move now is school of thought applies also to the air pollution problem
[09:37 - 09:42]
although in this area as Thomas F. Williams chief Office of Legislative and
[09:42 - 09:47]
Public Affairs Division of air pollution U.S. Public Health Service points out
[09:47 - 09:50]
there are many more technological solutions needed.
[09:50 - 09:55]
There is equipment available for most sources of pollution in the farm the equipment
[09:55 - 10:00]
that is available were applied. We'd see a very dramatic reduction in air
[10:00 - 10:02]
pollution every place in the country.
[10:02 - 10:07]
Some of the major sources of pollution for which we do not now
[10:07 - 10:11]
have economically feasible means of control.
[10:11 - 10:18]
Are of course trucks and Bessus diesel powered trucks and busses.
[10:18 - 10:22]
Control of suffer dioxide and other forms of softness
[10:22 - 10:27]
gases from power plants and many other sources and
[10:27 - 10:32]
control of oxides of nitrogen which is not yet so critical in our opinion as a control of oxides
[10:32 - 10:33]
of sulfur.
[10:33 - 10:38]
These are the principal ones I feel that that right now we
[10:38 - 10:43]
cannot control we do not control because we cannot. Don't know how to control them.
[10:43 - 10:50]
But as Secretary Gardner said recently a country of the public in a country which
[10:50 - 10:55]
is and I am paraphrasing him which is accustomed to seeing a
[10:55 - 10:59]
new man in space every few months is not going to be
[10:59 - 11:04]
long patient with our plea that we don't know how to control diesel
[11:04 - 11:06]
exhaust because we're too dumb to do it.
[11:06 - 11:11]
The emphasis should be placed
[11:11 - 11:18]
on engineering. We
[11:18 - 11:22]
must find ways of controlling
[11:22 - 11:26]
more satisfactorily in the automobile.
[11:26 - 11:31]
Speaking now is Dr. A.J. Haagen Smit professor of biochemistry at
[11:31 - 11:33]
the California Institute of Technology.
[11:33 - 11:38]
We cannot possibly be satisfied with the present
[11:38 - 11:42]
efficiency. And that in a way goes also for any industry
[11:42 - 11:49]
that we must be able to control but I know the industry
[11:49 - 11:54]
is doing much better I think in general than the automobile does. But
[11:54 - 11:59]
nevertheless we will have other processes that
[11:59 - 12:04]
come in new chemicals being made. Almost no
[12:04 - 12:05]
problems I ask.
[12:05 - 12:10]
They deal with research and development income toward myself and
[12:10 - 12:15]
on the field which I think is Israel important that is
[12:15 - 12:20]
then finding out they need a kind of period of rant.
[12:20 - 12:22]
People begin to be affected.
[12:22 - 12:25]
People are plants. Let's back the people that are.
[12:25 - 12:30]
Guys it is not enough to say to me I get a
[12:30 - 12:33]
headache because it is too late.
[12:33 - 12:38]
We want to know long before before somebody gets a headache
[12:38 - 12:44]
and this is the kind of work that needs and years of
[12:44 - 12:49]
research and large funds and I went to probably have Tice not the body.
[12:49 - 12:53]
To put behind them.
[12:53 - 12:57]
But all too quickly became something I could not find
[12:57 - 13:03]
many public health officials feel that standards for clean air similar to those now
[13:03 - 13:08]
being set for what would be very helpful. Among them is Dr. Lester
[13:08 - 13:13]
Breslow Director of Public Health for California the better we can spell out
[13:13 - 13:16]
the air quality requirements.
[13:16 - 13:20]
In physical and chemical terms. The better we can plan our cities.
[13:20 - 13:24]
Design our transportation facilities for the future. And
[13:24 - 13:30]
the degree of control required. To achieve the goals.
[13:30 - 13:35]
If we can agree on the goals. I'm sure that we will all be in a better position
[13:35 - 13:37]
to decide how to reach them.
[13:37 - 13:43]
Although there is now a goodly amount of pollution control legislation at the federal level.
[13:43 - 13:48]
It will have to keep pace with new technology. Also clear is that
[13:48 - 13:53]
the strongest thrust in these measures. Must come at the local and state levels.
[13:53 - 13:57]
An excellent example of the type of program needed is the recent New York state's
[13:57 - 14:01]
billion dollar a pure waters bond issue.
[14:01 - 14:06]
As New York Governor Rockefeller asserts It's a unique program and I
[14:06 - 14:11]
hope sincerely that it's going to inspire other states to take the
[14:11 - 14:16]
same kind of decisive action. If they want to have the right after drinking and using
[14:16 - 14:21]
their communities if they want to have it for recreation purposes if they want to have a job that is going to
[14:21 - 14:26]
have to. Issue Bonds. To.
[14:26 - 14:29]
The states the local communities along with federal aid
[14:29 - 14:35]
carried this law. And that it's going to become a must.
[14:35 - 14:39]
Unfortunately as is true of water pollution air pollution can't be
[14:39 - 14:44]
cleaned up by passing a bond issue and it too is primarily a
[14:44 - 14:49]
local problem which must be dealt with by counties and states.
[14:49 - 14:54]
Tom Williams speaking for the US Public Health Service says hopefully.
[14:54 - 14:58]
It seems to me two things are needed. One is there must be adequate
[14:58 - 15:03]
policing adequate real adequate
[15:03 - 15:08]
policing. There must be adequate enforcement backed up by adequate laws at the
[15:08 - 15:12]
local and state levels of government that must it seems also increasingly it
[15:12 - 15:17]
seems be some means of encouraging industries
[15:17 - 15:22]
to purchase the equipment or make the operational changes or whatever might be
[15:22 - 15:26]
required to control their sources of air pollution.
[15:26 - 15:32]
And I think in most places in the country neither of these existence efficient
[15:32 - 15:37]
measure most of our local air
[15:37 - 15:41]
pollution control programs at this time still
[15:41 - 15:46]
made over versions of all smoke control programs
[15:46 - 15:52]
which are fairly obsolete in their approach toward controlling air pollution
[15:52 - 15:56]
in their understanding of the true nature of the problem and so on.
[15:56 - 16:01]
A lawmaker at the local level New York City Councilman Robert Lowe
[16:01 - 16:06]
feels that if industry is given the proper incentives are democratic free enterprise
[16:06 - 16:11]
system with its built in competitive values will come up with the necessary
[16:11 - 16:13]
solutions. It seems to us.
[16:13 - 16:18]
That a legislative timetable which gives industry a year or two
[16:18 - 16:23]
years of five years can provide the economic incentive to
[16:23 - 16:28]
develop basic new air pollution control equipment. New processes
[16:28 - 16:33]
and techniques are markets for them. And I might add of course that may be
[16:33 - 16:38]
incidental by products which will bring profit to industry. Furthermore
[16:38 - 16:42]
legislation providing such a timetable can create the climate for competition
[16:42 - 16:48]
within an industry or between industries and the economic incentive which
[16:48 - 16:51]
is the key in our judgment to technological progress.
[16:51 - 16:56]
However Pollution Control and Prevention is accomplished. It will cost money
[16:56 - 17:02]
a great deal of money. Much of the financing for waste disposal works will
[17:02 - 17:07]
come from federal cost sharing plans but a goodly amount must also come
[17:07 - 17:11]
directly from overstrained state and local sources. Many
[17:11 - 17:17]
government spokesmen assert that the costs can be managed without too much difficulty.
[17:17 - 17:21]
But Representative Donald Clawson of California says they can't and offers some
[17:21 - 17:26]
ideas on possible ways to ease local money problems.
[17:26 - 17:31]
Anyone familiar with the school. Problems of communities and states
[17:31 - 17:36]
certainly are aware of the fact that most of the tax sources
[17:36 - 17:41]
have literally been taken away from them or preempted by the federal government. The federal
[17:41 - 17:46]
government today collects about two thirds of the tax revenues
[17:46 - 17:52]
in America. And I believe as I have for many many years
[17:52 - 17:57]
that it is absolutely essential for every level
[17:57 - 18:01]
of government to give attention to a total
[18:01 - 18:07]
revision of our entire tax structure part of which would
[18:07 - 18:11]
be to devise something in the way of an extension of the
[18:11 - 18:16]
Bradley Byrne's concept which we have in California where a sales
[18:16 - 18:21]
tax could be shared on a broader scale with the property
[18:21 - 18:26]
tax. So as to provide relief at the federal level I have been one of those
[18:26 - 18:30]
that has held the view that we repeat as many of the tax sources
[18:30 - 18:35]
as we possibly can at this at the federal level and then permit the
[18:35 - 18:40]
states to pick them up. Now if this cannot be done
[18:40 - 18:46]
when considering the political facts of life why then it may be
[18:46 - 18:50]
necessary for us to develop this sharing of the
[18:50 - 18:54]
tax income tax that has been collected at the federal level.
[18:54 - 19:01]
Sharing it in such a way that we would return in the form of a
[19:01 - 19:05]
consolidated grant a percentage of the overall revenue that is
[19:05 - 19:10]
collected through the federal tax sources. And I believe
[19:10 - 19:15]
that in many ways this would promote simultaneous action
[19:15 - 19:18]
on the part of each level of government.
[19:18 - 19:23]
When federal officials talk in terms of billions of dollars to clean up pollution
[19:23 - 19:28]
Mr average homeowner shadows crying how can we afford it.
[19:28 - 19:32]
Actually in says Deputy Commissioner Baron Hill. The cost to each
[19:32 - 19:35]
individual is not to be shouted at.
[19:35 - 19:40]
I don't think the cost is that high for you and me as individual
[19:40 - 19:44]
citizens. It really doesn't amount to very much. It's
[19:44 - 19:48]
considerably less than what the average person spends a year for
[19:48 - 19:53]
cigarettes. And if you.
[19:53 - 19:59]
We were so bad off in this country that we can afford to buy cigarettes and we can afford to buy clean
[19:59 - 20:01]
water I think we're in trouble.
[20:01 - 20:05]
Edmond fall to Mayra staff writer for Fortune magazine made a recent study of the
[20:05 - 20:09]
costs of controlling air pollution and came up with the same answer.
[20:09 - 20:14]
I calculated roughly would cost the country about three
[20:14 - 20:19]
billion dollars a year to do this and this would work out to
[20:19 - 20:24]
about a dollar 30 a month per person 3 billion a
[20:24 - 20:28]
year sounds like a lot but that's less
[20:28 - 20:33]
than the roughly a revenant billion dollars a year that it's costing us to put
[20:33 - 20:38]
up with air pollution. So in a sense it's crossing us almost four
[20:38 - 20:42]
times as much to put up with it as it would do something about it.
[20:42 - 20:47]
All these things are necessary for returning our air and water to
[20:47 - 20:52]
cleanliness laws. Technology and engineers incentives
[20:52 - 20:57]
money but in the final analysis the case for pollution control
[20:57 - 21:02]
rests with the United States citizen. This is B brand. Hi I'm president of the
[21:02 - 21:06]
New York City citizens for clean air speaks for everyone concerned
[21:06 - 21:08]
with the clean up gambit.
[21:08 - 21:13]
We feel that the role of the citizen is the most crucial thing. This was
[21:13 - 21:18]
very dramatically demonstrated to me by the former Los
[21:18 - 21:23]
Angeles County Air Pollution Control Officer Smith Griswold who was the
[21:23 - 21:28]
person who brought about a revolution in Los Angeles and he said
[21:28 - 21:33]
repeatedly that he could never have done anything had there not been a citizen demand.
[21:33 - 21:37]
He told me of how when he reported a
[21:37 - 21:41]
violating oil refinery outside Los Angeles
[21:41 - 21:45]
15000 people in Los Angeles sent back their gas credit cards to
[21:45 - 21:49]
that company. How Children of the air pollution control
[21:49 - 21:54]
officers who were not doing their job at the time used to come home from
[21:54 - 21:59]
school with black eyes. That's how angry the citizenry of Los
[21:59 - 22:04]
Angeles was. That is how angry we are trying to make the citizens of New
[22:04 - 22:08]
York before the problem in New Jersey is
[22:08 - 22:13]
even begun to be tackled. We're going to have to make the citizens of New
[22:13 - 22:18]
Jersey angry. People invested in Philadelphia are not even
[22:18 - 22:23]
aware of the problem until a citizen group called it
[22:23 - 22:24]
to their attention.
[22:24 - 22:29]
Not only must a desire for pollution control come from the people. But also a
[22:29 - 22:34]
sense of personal responsibility for current pollution and a willingness to
[22:34 - 22:39]
abate this pollution on an individual basis at the moment. Judges Thomas R.
[22:39 - 22:43]
Glenn director of The New York New Jersey Connecticut interstate sanitation committee
[22:43 - 22:46]
that willingness doesn't exist.
[22:46 - 22:49]
You said we realize the major problem. We do
[22:49 - 22:56]
realize that there's a major health hazard from smoking and I'm going to turn
[22:56 - 23:01]
our pollution meter a little chap to baffle all their pollution experts around smoking
[23:01 - 23:06]
and if we can on this a very good type of person or type of pollution if
[23:06 - 23:11]
we can pass people that this is bad you have a harder time and passing
[23:11 - 23:16]
on the rare and not until the people as a whole raft of
[23:16 - 23:20]
enforcement like that about it not a right of pollution are the ground of them make these
[23:20 - 23:25]
big changes and employ people ready
[23:25 - 23:27]
to inconvenience themselves.
[23:27 - 23:32]
H h. Meredith Julia coordinator of air and water conservation for the
[23:32 - 23:37]
humble oil and refining company adds his voice to the swelling crowd of
[23:37 - 23:42]
pollution control experts who put the onus squarely on the public the
[23:42 - 23:44]
public has a responsibility.
[23:44 - 23:50]
The responsibility to become informed and to
[23:50 - 23:55]
understand it must become aware of what the situation
[23:55 - 23:59]
is in its own geographical area and what has to be done
[23:59 - 24:03]
to rectify any problems that exist.
[24:03 - 24:08]
Repeatedly the message comes across. The war is on the battle
[24:08 - 24:13]
against pollution joined and whatever it takes America
[24:13 - 24:17]
must be returned to productive beauty. The federal government will assume the
[24:17 - 24:22]
full responsibility for this attack only if the local government
[24:22 - 24:27]
defaults for says an adamant Tom Williams. This is one
[24:27 - 24:30]
battle that America will not be allowed to lose.
[24:30 - 24:35]
The role of the federal government in the future will be determined pretty much
[24:35 - 24:40]
by ROTT local and state governments and industry do from
[24:40 - 24:45]
this point on. Under current legislation the
[24:45 - 24:49]
main purpose of the Clean Air Act is to stimulate the
[24:49 - 24:54]
development of strong local and state programs. Strong enough.
[24:54 - 25:00]
And determined enough that they won't blow over at the first breath
[25:00 - 25:04]
of dissent from local polluters.
[25:04 - 25:11]
States and local governments do not respond to the challenge. Then
[25:11 - 25:16]
there is no doubt in my mind that the federal government despite or of a
[25:16 - 25:21]
howling that might come from all kinds of places will simply take over some of the
[25:21 - 25:25]
powers in this field that at this time we all believe ought to be
[25:25 - 25:30]
retained by states and local governments. The problem will not be allowed to
[25:30 - 25:35]
overwhelm us and it will overwhelm us if we do not move against it
[25:35 - 25:40]
with more alacrity than we have in the past. Those powers which are now rule
[25:40 - 25:45]
with states and local governments will have to be exercised. And to the
[25:45 - 25:50]
extent that they are not exercised I am sure we will hear a clamor
[25:50 - 25:54]
for somebody to exercise them. And as has been the case in many other fields
[25:54 - 26:00]
when the local governments are left to do what it ought to do. The state government takes it
[26:00 - 26:04]
over and with the state government they're asked to do it. Then the federal government takes it over
[26:04 - 26:09]
and then everybody complains that the federal government is trying to run everything. In this case the
[26:09 - 26:14]
federal government of course is not trying to run everything it is trying very hard to keep
[26:14 - 26:16]
from having to run everything.
[26:16 - 26:33]
The.
[26:33 - 26:38]
Group W the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company has presented the pollution explosion
[26:38 - 26:43]
a 10 part study of the increasing pollution of America's air and water.
[26:43 - 26:48]
The series was produced by Robert Franklin written and recorded by Stephanie Shelton
[26:48 - 26:51]
executive producer William J. Taylor.
[26:51 - 26:59]
This is John Daley with a final reminder we can end these
[26:59 - 27:03]
effluent days and exactly what we want if we want clean
[27:03 - 27:08]
air clean water clean land they are all possible. To
[27:08 - 27:13]
end the contamination of our environment. Will cost money but allowing this
[27:13 - 27:18]
pollution to continue is costing more money. The industries which we
[27:18 - 27:23]
make possible as consumers and workers the officials we elect
[27:23 - 27:28]
to run our cities and states and country as we want them run.
[27:28 - 27:32]
These respond only when we are interested enough angry
[27:32 - 27:37]
enough informed enough to make our wishes vociferous Lee and
[27:37 - 27:42]
constantly known as you have heard in these programs. A good
[27:42 - 27:47]
start has been made on pollution control and the money and new
[27:47 - 27:51]
techniques needed to finish the job are becoming available. The
[27:51 - 27:56]
final decision in this matter then rests as always in America
[27:56 - 28:01]
with us. It's our country. We have a right to bury and
[28:01 - 28:06]
stifle it with our waists. Or like the enlightened electorate we think we
[28:06 - 28:11]
are. We have a right to spend our votes our money and
[28:11 - 28:17]
our energies in reclaiming what has been lost.
[28:17 - 28:21]
The anyon network has presented this program in cooperation with a group w o the
[28:21 - 28:26]
Westinghouse Broadcasting Company. This is the national educational radio
[28:26 - 28:27]
network.
🔍