Abstract

Ending the war against earth

After spending some $1 trillion in an effort to control environmental pollution, the U.S. government have minimal results. For example, emissions of standard air pollution, dust, sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides, have declined since 1975 by only 18 percent, since 1982 there has been no improvement at all. At nearly nine-tenths of the national river test sites water pollution has remained the same or has become worse. The ozone layer that protects the planet from damaging ultraviolet radiation is being destroyed by chemical pollutants, and the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which threatens a devastating increase in global temperature, continues to rise. The nuclear reactor explosion at Chernobyl has heightened the risk of cancer for many thousands of Europeans.