Environmental Pollution Is An Incurable Disease. It

Air Pollution Is Not Merely A Nuisance And A Threat To Health. It Is A Reminder That Our Most Celebrated Technological Achievements-the Automobile, The Jet Plane, The Power Plant, Industry In General, And Indeed The Modern City Itself-are, In The Environment, Failures.

Despite The Dazzling Successes Of Modern Technology And The Unprecedented Power Of Modern Military Systems, They Suffer From A Common And Catastrophic Fault. While Providing Us With A Bountiful Supply Of Food, With Great Industrial Plants, With High-speed Transportation, And With Military Weapons Of Unprecedented Power, They Threaten Our Very Survival.

The Methods That Epa Introduced After 1970 To Reduce Air-pollutant Emissions Worked For A While, But Over Time Have Become Progressively Less Effective.

Sooner Or Later, Wittingly Or Unwittingly, We Must Pay For Every Intrusion On The Natural Environment.

It Is Simply Economically Impossible To Require Controls That Even Approach Zero Emissions.