Earth Day 1970 2 Michigan State News, East Lansing, Michigan Schools join in By JACQUI MILLER environmentalists and Milliken, Sen. Philip Hart, Rep. biopoliticians from across the John Dingell and State Rep. Earth Day and water conservation research; Victor Yannacone, the of the California Department of Public Health. State News Staff Writer nation and MSU will be speaking Jackie Vaughn, Environmental Defense Fund Classes have not been during the teach-in. Among Other prominent figures lawyer who took the case against cancelled today, but ^faculty Over 500 universities, colleges them are Stuart Udall, former addressing MSU students are Dr. DDT to court in Michigan and members have been urged to and high schools across the secretary of the interior. Gov. Cecil Wadleigh, director of soil Wisconsin, and Dr. Peter Mueller either turn their class discussions nation are participating in the to environmental issues or nationwide Environmental convene classes for appropriate Teach-in today, which has been lectures or panels. declared Earth Day by President Mike Freed, director of Nixon. E-QUAL, said the problem is to In Michigan, Gov. Milliken has force people to look at the declared this week future, not at what is happening Environmental Awareness Week. now. He pointed out that The emphasis during the conditions may be liveable at the teach-ins at most of the present, but at the rate of universities is on informing the environmental disintegration, students of environmental the problem will become critical problems and on bringing the in a matter of years. issue into focus for the outside "The students are the communities. The purpose of the teach-ins is to get people watchdogs of our society," he said and it is the students who concerned about the problems of our environment. must bring the issue to the MSlTs Environmental Quality community. The first step is awareness of the issue and Freed Group (E-QUAL) has films, added that "the people in programs and speakers scheduled Lansing don't understand the through Saturday. issue." Highlighting the five - day Other Big Ten universities also project is "blight tour" of East are planning large campus and J^ansing which will point out communitywide programs for some of the polluted areas of Earth Day. The University of our community. Buses will be Michigan held their main provided for the tour. teach-in last month sponsored E-QUAL also is planning an environmental movie series. by the Environmental Action For Survival Committee Thirty - three lecturers, (ENACT), but they are planning a few activities for today. George Coling, a member of WATCH FOR the ENACT steering committee, What you said their teach-in this week was to be "low - keyed and aimed at the community." Sights and Sounds to bottle "Hie emphasis of the day," he said, "will be to use public transportation or walk. We're trying to discourage everyone cflhe7D's to Just what can one fight pollution? number of suggestions: person do Below are a replaced biodegradable. and are 3. Take the less of two evils, -ot from driving, There is also a tentative power boycott scheduled from 5 to 7 A Special Supplement to the Michigan State News Coated milk cartons, for P m- today, 1. Boycott aluminum cans. instance, are almost as bad — but "The reason we choose 5 to 7 America imports bauxite to not quite — as plastics. The best o'clock," Coling said, "is TABLOID supplement to be published on Wednesday, make those cans — we haven't alternative: because this is the peak power May 20th, featuring articles on stereo equipment, enough of this ore left. Neither BUY ONLY DEPOSITtime " records, performing groups, and other entertainment will the rest of the world, soon. BOTTLES. Force the bottling The boycott will be a protest features in a modish format. If you boycott for just a few industry to change back to against the use of power plants months, you can ring about a returnable bottles. Throw . in the area, he said, DEADLINE for advertising copy and illustrations is drastic change in containers. aways pollute! Coling ^d that now People 2. Don't buy plastics. They 5. SAVE A TREE: conserve know what the problem is and Friday, May 8th. are made from coal and oil paper. Don't put your garbage in are asking what they can do to resources that can never be grocery bags; return the bags to help. the store. Use scrap paper. Save Ohio State University has a newspapers and magazines forwi<*e range of activities paper drives. Newspapers bring scheduled for today in 40 cents per 100 lb., magazines connection with pollution and ON CAMPUS YJttk ChesaJ^i 10 per 100 lb. from scrap - metal environmental problems. CALL yar(is. The day began with a "Rite of 6. At the grocery store: Spring" featuring poetry and LEAVE depleting resources in folk music. Following the rite, a 337-1681 the store. Bring with you your waik along the Olentangy River, 1071 TROWBRIDGE RD. own cloth bags for groceries and which runs through campus, is Coupon1 =Til NEAR HARRISON RD. your own bottles for drinks, planned and the pollution of When you buy something super - local lakes and rivers will be OFF CAMPUS AND CIRCLE DRIVE DORMS CALL 50t OFF with coupon on a 12" medium pizza encased in cardboard and plastic discussed at that time. leave the package in the store. Speakers for the day include Channel the garbage back to its Mike Frome, the conservation from the Express Menu source: such pressure may bring editor of "Field and Stream Offer Good Wed. & Thurs. about efficient use of paper, magazine, John Glenn the 337-1631 plastic, trees, glass. former astronaut, and Gerry 7. Recycle your garbage. Cans Combs of the National Institute 1203 and glass can be sold. Buryof Health. E. GRAND RIVER organic garbage or make a Also planned at Ohio State are compost heap. about 30 workshops on a variety 8. CONSERVE WATER, of related topics and a panel 3 BLOCKS WEST Don't leave it running constantly discussion on "Cultural and Of HAGADORN while you shave, wash dishes, Social Causes of Environmental brush your teeth. Crisis." 9. Don't drive when you can The Environmental Teach-in walk. Save the air. at the University of Wisconsin, 10. Stop buying detergents sponsored by the Earth Day with high phosphate levels. Committee, is also aimed at the 11. Write ALL your community. congressmen in support of "An effort was made, Carol ecology bills of rights, Gann, E-DAY speaker population controls, abortion committee director said, to reoform. If you want a clean minimize the campus and to world, the only way to get it is (Continued on page 5) to do it yourself. I ■ ue9n/3i>v 'gursurj jseg •smsm ajejs Peaceful atomic energy yjmsiTy mosf dangerous TRY OUR (STOP IN AND PLAY By THOMAS SPANIOLO State News Staff Writer Another effect high water temperature can have abnormally subside. The fuel is then shipped to HOT PIZZA PIN-BALL) a reprocessing plant where it Since the end of World War II, 0,1 fish that it upsets their is dissolved in acid. The the contamination of our reproductive processes. To fish radioactive solution is collected environment has progressed at suc^ as bass, trout, walleye and and boiled down to reduce its we also have Footlongs King Burgers an alarming rate. 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The idea pervasion, or a recital of its decay inevitably belabors the "hard" pesticides like DDT that effects to imply. Since State News Staff Writer of progress lies at the basis of seems it's topic of pesticide pollution to an remain stable in the environment incredibly stable and not easily our incredibly successful brand incredible degree. Pesticides for years. DDT itself has a "half The clearest idea to emerge of eliminated from the body, it capitalism: business indeed stand as a significant life" of 15 years; that is, after from our ecological crisis is that enterprises and - tends to concentrate in animal the nation problem and will be discussed 15 years half of a quantity of unless something is done, flourish together when both aim fat, most particularly in here. Hie degree of danger, the chemical has immediately, intelligently and together to properly progress. degraded to a reproductive organs. DDT's however, relative to the total harmless state, after another 15 interference with these organs totally, our entire society will be Our brand of progress means pressure we face, deserves far years half the remainder is gone, has greatly magnified the list of destroyed — and soon. profit. And profit is best made less hysteria than has been and so on. For those who do not feel by minimizing costs. endangered species. Yet man generated. DDT, like many hard continues to use it, and particularly threatened by this Garbage - dumping in the DDT is the most popular pesticides, is idea, let me add that if we try environment is quite noble everywhere in our pesticides far more dangerous, hard enough, well take the under this scheme of things: supervillain of all pesticides. Its ecology. It's carried in the air. quite casually. possibilities of life on the look how using the river as a continent (if really successful, sewage drain saves cash! the planet) with us. Progress. Most people, however, know Progress also means growth very little about pollution; and lots of it. The more consequently, they have very consumers, the better. Hien we little comprehension of the full can have more industry which import of real eco - reform. makes more all - American Perhaps you're worried about progress / profit, the making of the DDT in penguins or all your which generates even more food intake or are upset about pollution. Gaylord Nelson's prediction that Here, then, we see the second well run out of all metals within determinant behind the eco - 75 years or don't like ghetto rats crisis: volume. Any ecosystem or drinking dilute chlorine can handle a small amount of instead of water. abuse. But a massive, continuing A mere demand to "get rid of and even accelerated attack it" is inadequate. The cannot be coped with. The very ramifications of ecological nature of our existence offers reform are staggering. And such an attack. The attack cuts unless one prefers multiple and down in huge volume on every inevitable pressurized death, one ecological front. Moreover, we must be prepared to do believe that the conditions everything necessary to preserve constituting such an attack - the planet. overpopulation, Hie most stunning thing about overconsu mption — are eco - reform, once one gets essentially good. beyond media horror stories The total problem, then, about oil slicks or Lake Erie, is becomes not one of getting rid its complexity. of one plant spray and a few Hie problem, thus, stands as types of containers. To deal with not merely one thing in the air our environmental crises, we or a few too many must wrestle with two devils: things in the water. It's not even just the air the manifestations of crisis and the water and the soil. It's themselves, as ugly water or everything in our physical world. mass starvation, and the outlook value in the past has undeniably the water and in What effect does DDT have on the soil's Man, particularly American man, permitting such crises. been fantastic. An estimated 50 humans? Average Americans, as is committing the ultimate rape: groundwater. Traces of it have Examination of various facets million lives have been saved in been found in penguins in the stated, carry 12 ppm of DDT in he's after mother earth. And, as of the ecology crisis, will bring public health programs using Antarctic, although it's highly their bodies. No immediate gross if the problem of turning back further understanding of the DDT. The chemical, unlikely that Antarctic food dysfunctions traceable to DDT the rapist isn't bad enough, various symptoms, infections furthermore, serves an integral crops have been sprayed have been noted in humans. everything has been rendered far and attempts at a cure behind part in preserving human food more complex by the nature of extensively with that chemical. Nevertheless, particularly such facets. Often, the proposed supplies. However, the The average American carries 12 considering the indications so the rapist. "We have found the so - called cures are nothing consequences of such parts per million of DDT in his amply afforded in nature, enemy, "Pogo says, "and he is more than a bigger dose of preservation are phenomenal. fatty tissues, or five ppm above demanding we "prove it now" us." infection. But always the dual DDT, in short terms, has the federal beef tolerance. But seem both childish and suicidal. Incumbent to our multiple cause — volume and attitude — saved. But, over a long period of even such universal Only recently research has polluting is America's most prevails. pervasion time, it maims and kills. The may not be of necessity revealed connections between important product: progress. Pesticides are the panacea of purpose of pesticides is, after all, dangerous. The real danger lies DDT tissue content in humans Progress is the greatest clean - the eco - reform movement. Any to kill. Those that do so most in malignant effects. What does and cerebral hemorrhage, various DDT do? carcinomas and stomach and It is known today that DDT liver disorders. Furthermore, the causes severe reproductive nature indicated possibility of - failure in fish, shellfish and reproductive failure cannot be birds. Birds suffering chronic ignored (but ironically, in light DDT poisoning lay thin - shelled of other environmental factors, eggs that either are crushed by might not be a bad thing.) the mother's weight or fail to And DDT is not even the hatch. Fish and shellfish larvae strongest or most persistent of die in eggs before they hatch. the hard pesticides. Many of Again, the mortality rate these pesticides pollute the among such fish as DDT - world because American poisoned salmon is 10 times consumers have the most greater than normal. DDT incredible cleanliness complex in reduces photosynthesis in algae, the world. The affluent thus cutting down the vital American housewife wants a (,.jcess of oxygen reproduction. spotless apple, and she'll pay the It also cuts growiii ana few extra pennies rather than eat reproduction in plankton, the a blemished one. That same first link in the earth's food housewife, however, hasn't chain, by from 50 to 90 per realized that included in the cost cent. of her perfect fruit is Fish and birds exposed to environmental pesticide and "excess levels" of DDT or fertilizer pollution. The dieldrin, another hard pesticide, difference between a perfect go into convulsions and die. One fruit and a slightly damaged one part of DDT to one billion parts is huge in environmental terms. of water (equivalent to five "There are many things worse drops in the men's I.M. pool) than an apple with a worm kills blue crabs within eight hole," ecologist John Cantlon, days. When DDT levels in the MSU provost, says. "Like a brains of sunfish (a popular poisoned Lake Michigan. Our Michigan sport fish) reach nine attempts at perfection override ppm, they die in convulsions. food sense." The effect of DDT is even Again, progress is our most more insidious than its universal malignant product. Wednesday, April "2.-2., \970 5 Purity MARION NOWAK State News Staff Writer poison is goes worst threat and most successful Two down the drain major pollution an odd perversion of spew raw effluents into the falls sources during season. the summer canning In fact, some ecologists already Cherry wastes are four consider the south end of Water pollution is another ;he idea of enrichment. here, and both are American: times more toxic than raw Michigan dead. Tributary poison notorious facet of the erosion of Enrichment pollution occurs 500 yards above the Falls, a human sewage. Moreover, only is partially responsible, but the Earth's ecology. when a body of water is so filled tunnel dumps 400 million daily 25% of the wastes are processed greatest deathblows of all have The blight of the with life - nourishing chemicals gallons of industrial wastes, and at peak activity periods. been rendered by such industrial environmental garbage can that that it chokes to death from the city of Niagara Falls vomits At Manistee, fish sometimes centers as Gary, Ind. Hie job our waterways have become is plant overgrowth. Enrichment 70 million daily gallons of raw taste like kerosene. Used by Gary started, with an assist from quite all - American. Very few pollutants include agricultural human sewage. paper mill manufacturers, Chicago, may be finished with population centers in the United fertilizers and municipal Lake Michigan is the most kerosene has been a major water the completion of two nuclear States are located far from a effluents. The responsible endangered of all Great Lakes. Dollution problem for years. The power plants in the southern body of water. Most depend on chemicals in both cases are portion of the lakeshore. Both such bodies for all their water; nitrates and phosphates. plants offer distinct potential for relatively few (the Lansing area Municipal effluents primarily radioactive and thermal included) depend on artesian generate from one source: pollution of the ecosystem. Both wells. detergents. Some enzyme plants are located in tourist products almost resort areas; one of them, the Municipal effluents primarily Palisades Plant near South generate from one source: Haven, is located directly detergents. Some enzyme adjacent to a public beach. products are almost 50% Lake Michigan may well pollutant. Don't be fooled when become the next Lake Erie. But the detergent package boasts the other Great Lakes are not far "biodegradable." Since 1965, all behind. Lake Superior, long detergents are biodegradable; in considered the last holdout, fact, the stuff making them non already reveals marked evidence soapy in a river is the same - of ecological poisoning. stuff producing enrichment Hiis death of all our lake pollution. Clean - cut America system is not a cause for concern gets its whites whiter; it also gets due to the potential death of a its streams deader. few birds or fish. Not just this Fertilizers also contribute to lake system, but virtually every deader streams. American body of water at all significant agriculture today emphasizes to a community's existence, has ultrayields and perfect crops. become a garbage can. This The only way to sustain such condition is not merely super - production is by Midwestern: It holds true across overapplying fertilizers. These the country. Because anti - fertilizers make American fields pollution installations cost lush and continue their lush money and cut into profits, the stimulation in rivers and streams. nation's lifeblood becomes more In all, then whiter whites and and more cancerous daily. We perfect apples plus all - aren't just threatening robins, American progress mean we're commiting suicide. Water strangulation. Lake Erie indeed can cleanse itself: But the strangled from algae process takes a very long time overgrowths; it may never be and requires no toxic overload. revived. Some scientists feel its Our waters don't have the time nitrate cycle is too well but they certaily do have established. The rest of the lake The value of water in drinking, overtoxicity. And because of system fares similarly well. Unlike Erie, it is a cul - de - sac Manistee transportation and recreation is Lake, graced by two this, we may soon run out of crucial to humankind, yet we Niagara Falls, honeymoon with no through ■ flow of pulp and paper mills, daily time. Increased population haven, now is losing its tourist flushing waters. Once Michigan receive four million gallons of demands and pollutes more and literally treat water like garbage. business. It smells and looks dies, it has less of a chance for The creation of garbage in the mill effluent. Brine wastes are more water. We may find awful. And the fault distinctly rebirth than even Erie. flushed regularly ourselves within a few years at Great Lakes area exemplifies the into the lake. rests with the Americans: Most of the rivers feeding into In the point where, while there is all - American way. all, Lake Michigan is Although only 10% of the total Lake Michigan are gutters. At indeed enough water, none of it The Red Cedar River is the seriously threatened merely by Falls flows over the American Traverse City, various cherry its tributary system. Hiis threat will be fit for consumption. most obvious and immediate erosion example of a beautiful side, this 10% carries 90% of the canning companies dump magnifies with every industrial natural resource. At one time Niagara water pollution. cherry wastes into Traverse Bay additon along Michigan's shores. the Red Cedar was a trout stream, clear, cold and fast running. Gradual increases in - Universities industrialization and (Continued from page 2) urbanization made the stream a involve the community as much dumping ground. Now, says a as possible." report of MSU's Water Research The Teach-in at the University Institute, the river is "little of Wisconsin is scheduled better than a municipal sewer." through Friday and some Municipalities along the river activities planned are a canoe have just begun anti - pollution tour of area lakes with efforts in hopes of long - term biologists, a bike tour to "push" purification. The Utilex ball - for more bike trails, a clean-up bearing plant at Fowlerville at the campus Union and an plans to install filtration Earth Service at Picnic Point to equipment producing "create a spiritual atmosphere wastewater "so pure you could for viewing the natural drink it." environment." If the Red Cedar is a municipal sewer, other Great Lakes rivers, The main event was the Earth like the Detroit and Cuyahoga, Day Rally Tuesday which are far worse than gutters. The featured Sen. Gaylord Nelson, Detroit, a major accomplice in Mike Gavel of Alaska, and Boyd tiie murder of Lake Erie, carries Gibbons of the President's into that lake 1.6 billion gallons Council of Environmental of industrial and municipal Advisers. TTie theme of the rally waste daily. And the Cuyahoga was "Life Style on Trial: the in Ohio is so filthy it burns. Government and the Then there is Lake Erie. This Environment." renowned body of crud stands as Miss Gann said that classes a manifestation of every factor have not been cancelled for the contributing to water pollution Earth Day activities but that in America today. outside schools are being First, of course, there is the supplied by E-DAY with municipal and industrial waste flow from rivers like the Detroit. speakers on pollution issues. Industrial wastes from auto area As for campus participation, factories are highly toxic and a she said every department is threat in themselves. But the doing something. Dirty By MARION NOWAK State News Staff Writer warms it, but, rather than soon air be sold without lead, since is the lurks only "one thing you can again we're back to the old escaping into space it is trapped the new anti - pollution devices do," and too many Americans problem of overwhelming Air pollution from American by the atmosphere. This effect for cars don't function with lead will come to believe the truth of volume. An ever - accelerating imbued gasoline. The chief this deception. number of cars (today's traffic - technology blankets the earth; - occurs normally to a degree, but its effects are most heavy on the air pollution increases the danger of such an advertising Another more traditional jamming number will double by North American continent, amount of heat idea is its popular exposure to a proposal for car exhaust 1980) is being driven, too many trapped. Hence, particularly urban America. As the prediction that earth's public used to believing in cutbacks is faith in development for any real change to be previously mentioned, 60 - 65% advertising: At a time when we of non - internal combustion effected. So, car and oil atmospheric heat is slowly of our air pollution comes from increasing, leading surely to the are choking on a 12-strand rope, engines. The worth of this idea is industries profit from anti - not as blatantly useless as the pollution. And, since such first. Nevertheless, it is not much equipment slashes gas mileage, better. the air gets fouler and fouler. Initially, research in (An interesting application of propelling cars with, for progress, eh? Profit from instance, electricity, has had seemingly joining the ecology little success. Models bandwagon, while not really produced so far are most significant in changing a thing. Too bad the their inconvenience: batteries fill odor of money doesn't clean out the trunk and engine, the lungs.) Pollution car filters they travel at an excruciatingly slow speed, are another unfortunate and current electric cars panacea. constantly need recharging (or a Electric cars won't succeed very long extension cord). — too undeveloped, too potentially Assume, however, that science threatening to mineral resources, indeed develops an adequate most of all too ironically air electric car. Electric cars need polluting. Exhaust filtration is at batteries, which must be made best stopgap, but most likely from lead. There is ineffective — too many people not, however, enough lead left in the keep consuming more cars. earth to make a There's simply too many. supply of batteries for all America's cars. And here we are again, back Other metals may be substituted at the basic: there's for lead — but there is not simply too enough of them either, and even many. Too many people, drive too many cars that if there were, the air pass too pollution much produced by power plants only one polluting gas. There is way to breath: Slash recharging all those batteries the volume. would well compensate for the end of internal combustion. The only honest method to Again, the 10-strand rope. But this time we get a few more cut the volume of car - produced strands for the inconvenience. pollution must emphasize overall reduction of the number of cars The reform and the miles they are driven. Of proposal most "attractive" to the auto industry course, you know that means concerns universal installation of mass transport, particularly in anti pollution filters on all cars. urban areas. Very few members - This cuts down on the volume of of our society will voluntarily automobiles. Additional air melting of the polar ice caps, we are crud thrown into the air, right? "submit" to such transport. This offered the salvation of That makes things a whole lot also means increased pollution in urban areas is which in tum will inundate difficulty belched into the atmosphere via every major hanging on a 10-strand one. better, doesn't it? in getting a driver's capital in the world. Moreover, license, with industrial smokestacks and from we are being an increase probably in Attempting to solve the air heartily enjoined to believe this Frankly, it doesn't. bus and plane exhausts. Once minimum age. pollution problem automatically Even considering seafood runs us up against the very poisoning, air pollution is more factors behind air pollution: Ecological of a direct health threat than volume and attitudes. Autos do water While or pesticide pollution. drinking water receives treatment for disease prevention, most of the polluting, and autos are an index industrial strength. of American imperialism threatens world's people and while dangerously high American industry, Paul bacteria level beaches are closed Ehrlich points out, doubles to the public, raw air cannot be every 13 years and is highly closed to the public or dependent on population growth Three billion people exist on chlorinated for safety. and 250 million tons of protein i mperialism accelerating consumption. earth today. justifying the Pollution laden air is directly "Industrial societies," he says, goods annually but at the same dirtying of the air and the - Of these, only about 450 "serve the needs of industry million can be said time import 350 million tons of incriminated in causing or to live stealing of food resources, various protein goods. These aggravating a variety of human rather than applying technology adequately, to eat well. jeopardizes the closed - system diseases, particularly respiratory. to man's needs. Man is expected goods must be diverted away spaceship that is Earth. This luxury club occupies from hungrier nations to come It is vital to remember Rates of deaths due to to expand to serve industry white European - based nations: that, here. And when they get here, with the miracles of modem respiratory ailments are higher in without regard to the total Europe, Canada, America, heavily air - polluted vicinities. ecology. they often are used absurdly. chemistry, we have Australia and New Zealand. Of Five to six only Respiratory infections are more Auto factories, as I've said, pounds of high - managed to postpone Malthus' these, America is, by far, the protein products, for instance, frequent. Deaths from diseases pollute the air directly by most affluent. We are startled dismal theorem. We are reaching such as lung cancer, emphysema making cars and indirectly when that the rest of the world produces 2 pounds of high - the limits of arable land, and chronic bronchitis are these cars are "consumed." protein meat. It takes six times breathable air and drinkable as doesn't live by our standard of as much ground to raise much as tripled in high Assume you want this protein water. At the same time, we've - affluence, yet whether the world on the hoof as in the grain field. disproportionate and cut down the pollution areas. can afford it is questionable. Not only are American cows, controls Malthusian The guilty gases include overwhelming hazard cut down. The remaining 2.5 billion on overpopulation: carbon monoxide, carbon What would be a sensible goal to pigs and chickens better fed than disease no longer is relevant persons can be said merely to American kids, they're better as a dioxide, and sulfur dioxide, strive for? Consider several exist. Their living occurs under population control, massive alternatives fed than anyone in the world. especially from furnaces and and their conditions of people - eradicating war will underfeeding, This abuse of portein supplies is either power plants, lead and many ramifications. malnourishment (a polite destroy everyone or, more termed the great protein swindle other sources. One of the newest suggestions euphemism for slow starvation) likely, never occur. All that Not merely our lungs are for slashing air pollution comes by Georg Borgstrom. remains is mass or out - and - out starvation, Nutritive imperialism is not starvation, involved. Plants suffer from the from the oil companies leaching quality out of life. They already taking over in such the only brand we practice. gases, too. Many California themselves. Several have recently live mostly in Asia, Africa and overpopulated areas as India, America's affluent society China and parts of Africa. Man redwoods are dying from the begun to urge the public to cut South America and are the absorbs more natural resources has overpopulated to the infamous California smog. Crop air pollution by using their victims of imperialism that is upper than any other. For instance limits. There are damage occuis nationally. products. Certain gasolines, it both economic and nutritive. no fairy - tale with six per cent of the world's myths to turn The sheer volume of air seems, no longer contain lead. It is a startling, and to — save perhaps population, we use 55 per cent depopulation. pollution we produce, some They are now referred to as delightful, thing to realize that of its raw resources. scientists say, quite easily could "detergent gasolines." Starvation is not the through ecology one can fully only Remember what detergents prove those old radical Obviously, then, we cannot catastrophe posed trigger drastic changes in the rantings by expect the rest of the world to overpopulation. We see atmosphere of the planet. The do to riverS? Lead, although about U.S. imperialism. follow our standard of living: it second variation on the the "greenhouse effect" appears to indeed a factor in air pollution, America, with 6 per cent of theme of is too exhaustive. too many be the most popularly expected is not the most dangerous the world's population, people: too much America thus threatens not poison America's vast but eco catastrophe: Heat from the chemical by a long shot. consumes a disproportionate . . . - just heiself with her pollution, well fed millions sun enters the atmosphere and Furthermore, all gasolines will amount of protein. We export but largely through an rrolofflfal needn't fear starvation. Dollar pollution' can help agricultural water supply, Primary treatment is "the basic product of secondary treatment The WRC prefers that By ROBERT ROACH industrial water supply, aquatic process. Rural communities is sprayed over a bed of sand industries and communities State News Staff Writer life and riverfront property. three feet deep. Hie water subscribe to these stipulations generally employ this system to A lake or stream is damaged replace individual septic tanks. discharged through a bottom voluntarily. When cooperation is Hie current condition of the by premature aging known as After sewers are installed, drain is extremely pure. lacking the commission has Red Cedar is the result of more eutrophication. This process domestic waste is routed to a As improved sewage court power to effect necessary than 100 years of pollution. occurs when large amounts of man - made pond. TTiere, heavier treatment techniques were corrections. It may fine Clifford R. Humphrys, MSU nutrients, primarily phosphates waste materials settle to the developed and implemented, industrial polluters $500 for professor of resource and nitrates, are present in waste bottom where they will public demand for cleaner water each day of an infraction. It may development, said. discharges. They stimulate decompose over a period of accelerated. This resulted in also force delinquent Emphasizing the economic excessive growth of nuisance time. Clean water on the surface positive action by governments communities to issue court aspect of pollution control, he algae. Excessive plant growth then flows into a nearby lake or at the state and local levels. orders or general obligation added that he does not expect to limits the amount of oxygen a stream. The settling, or In 1965 the Michigan Water bonds to finance construction of sedimentation, is sometimes Resource Commission (WRC) adequate sewage facilities. '■> aided by the addition of was granted stronger regulatory In meeting the WRC chemicals. Compounds such as and enforcement authority to recommendations voluntarily, ferric chloride help to form combat pollution. In 1968 the the towns of Fowlerville, larger waste particles which state recorded the approval by a Webberville and Williamston settle out more easily. two - to one margin of a $335 have undertaken large financial - When primary treatment is million clean water bond issue. burdens to clean up the Red insufficient, it may be In early 1968 the WRC met Cedar. The Fowlerville industrial supplemented by secondary with smilar agencies from plant has done the same. treatment. This method employs Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana and Tom Stock, plant engineer at the Department of the Interior. the Utilex Division of Hoover living microorganisms which feed on and decompose waste This conference passed several Ball Bearing Co., said the plant's impurities. recommendations to improve expenditures for waste One such process is called the the water quality of Lake treatment will result in a "water Michigan and its tributaries. so pure you could drink it." trickling filter system. After primary treatment, the waste These recommendations Fowlerville should be credited water is routed into a cylindrical provided for the following: with considerable foresight in its tank containing an eight - foot phosphate content in all program. In 1962 it layer of rocks. These rocks are tributaries should be reduced by implemented one of the first three to four inches in diameter 80 per cent by the end of 1972; sewage stabilization lagoon and are covered with a biological industries should provide their systems in the country, slime. As sewage seeps through own waste treatment or connect employing a primary the tank, organisms in the slime with a municipal sewer system; sedimentation treatment. The decompose the waste material. septic tanks should be $600,000 project was financed Tertiary sewage treatment disscouraged; and dvelopment of by increased sewage assessments and the first bond issue ever provides further purification if municipal sewage treatment necessary. In this phase, the should be encouraged. undertaken by the town. FIRST CLASS Permit No. 17370 San Francisco, Calif. = \ BUSINESS REPLY MAIL . ^ . : | No postage stamp necessary if mailed in the United States stream has available to aid see great improvement in the Postage will be paid by: Red Cedar until more people decomposition of waste solids. Waste elements fall into two zJIDLER, DUNCAN &> PIERCE realize and undertake the TRAVEL ASSOCIATES broad categories: storm sewage tremendous cost of correcting and domestic sewage. 414 Clement Street, Suite 6 water pollution. The communities of Storm sewage results from San Francisco 94118 land run - off during spring and Fowlerville, Webberville and summer months. Automobile Williamston have realized the problem, however, and are drippings from street and undertaking large financial parking lot drains enter natural waters untreated. Storm sewage burdens to eliminate pollution. also includes soil elements A retired widow in Webberville washed directly into the water, pays 15 per cent of her $80 monthly social security check a group of nutrients contributing for sewage treatment. This is to pollution, abundant in plants and fertilizers. typical of the 5,000 up - river residents. Hie three towns soon Domestic sewage, however, is the main concern in water will have spent over $1.7 milliion for improved sewage pollution. This category includes both household and industrial facilities. Additionally, the only wastes. They are high in fold Red Cedar industry, a metal - plating plant in Fowlerville, has phosphates, another harmful nutrient group. Detergents and spent $250,000 to meet pure water standards. human waste are primary sources of phosphates. Large Pollution is seen by some industrial concentrations may people as an urgent exceed household phosphate environmental crisis and by If you tear out this coupon, fold it, staple it, and send it in others as a hot political output by a two - to - one ratio. bandwagon. We on the lower Improved domestic sewage (postage is paid), we'll send you a slim volume of art and poetry about end of the Red Cedar often fail treatment, then, is essential to Hawaii. (Of course, if you don't, we won't.) to see beyond our own imrpoving water quality. Hawaii is still beautiful, and there's a lot to see, but you ought Budweiser when the Until recent regulation, rural now, before the greedheads rip it off completely. -Your parents cans to go household wastes were treated in rational approach demands a wider vision. This approach often - inefficient septic tanks. might not send you there just to goof around, but maybe they II send requires consideration of Isolated industries were also you for the University of Hawaii Summer Session. pollution itself, of the corrective known to discharge improperly After reading "Where is Hawaii?", you might want to go. Let measures underway and of the treated wastes directly into us know and we'll handle the arrangements. (Ages 17-25, please... no streams. Current environmental cost involved. TTiis view may has ladies in flowered dresses or cigar chewing car salesmen allowed.) evoke a better understanding of concern spurred what is being done to the water implementation of refined Send me "Where is Hawaii?", free. before it passes under the Farm sewage treatment techniques. To Lane bridge. better understand these The Michigan Water Resources methods, the entire treatment Commission, a seven - man panel process must be considered. Domestic sewage treatment is Age of state officers charged with Name maintaining water quality, designed to purify both defines pollution as any waste household and industrial wastes. Address City- The terms "primary, secondary discharge which is or may become injurious to public and tertiary treatment" School designate progressive degrees of State Zip health, public water supply, recreation, fish and wildlife, purification. Agencies strike By LARRY LEE branches and other state mercury contamination in state water. at pollution waters and traced the pollution Debate quickly centered on State News Staff Writer agencies have expanded their to Dow Chemical Co. the word "unreasonable" efforts The mercury scare arose last a plant in toward pollution relative to pollution. The House month with the discovery of the Sarnia, Ont. After conferring abatement. Michigan's battle against substance in fish in Lake St. with Canadian officials, Milliken Conservation Committee had pollution of its natural resources Gov. Milliken called on Claire and the St. Claire River. banned fishing from the altered the bill to permit the halt continues to pick up steam as President Nixon last week for a Michigan side. only of "unreasonable Canada banned all sport and the executive and legislative four - point program to combat Friday, he asked the federal pollution" in order to win the commercial fishing from the government to: endorsement of Gov. Milliken. — take the matter before In an initial vote, a move to science advisors and report their strike the controversial word American attitudes need findings to the states. — take action to halt mercury from the bill failed by two votes. Opponents say the word takes the heart out of the bill. Rep. discharges throughout the country. Thomas Anderson, D changing to halt pollution — give State Dept. assistance in expediting liaison with Canada on the questions of Southgate, author of the bill, called it a "legal cop-out for defense attorneys." On other fronts, a General second group are those who will What compensation, testing, dredging By MARION NOWAK ultimately must change and other Electric plant at Edmore told die without is the American attitude toward matters. State News Staff Writer attention, but the Water Resources recover if they receive living. It is unlikely that the Meanwhile, the legislature is Commission that it stopped Coping with the problems of treatment. The third group is average American will concern debating this week the "Environmental Protection Bill" discharge of waste material pollution inadvertently has soldiers who will die regardless himself with such questions. Yet that gives citizens the authority Friday after having been widespread effects on American of treatment. his outlook must be made to threatened industry and technology. If our to sue industry or a state agency Thursday with Thus, when medical aid is change, as must the lifestyle of the authority to "protect the " i m mediate and appropriate headlong rush to disaster is not limited, it is concentrated earth's whole population. Our air, action" by the Attorney General halted, the rule of the lemmings on that second only whole life effort faces incredible water and other natural to stop all will take over. group. The resources of the state." mercury discharges others receive redirection. from the plant. no treatment. The number of cars driven, Countries who can afford to and the number of miles they purchase food for their are driven, must be controlled. inevitably booming population Mass transits, particularly in can stand alone. Nations that urban areas, can afford us less air need aid to live until they get pollution, fewer traffic jams, "healthy" (Ehrlich proposes fewer accidents. Since oil and West Pakistan, a nation he says is cars are two mainstays of the beginning population control American economy, we are all and agricultural development naturally in for an economic but faces catastrophe without decline for this period. But this aid in the interim) shall receive austere decline remains aid. far preferable to death And what of that final by strangulation. category: The nation doomed to catastrophe? India, Ehrlich says To control water pollution is such a country. Her birth we must do much more. control programs are piteously Housewives can and must avoid ineffective. Her food supply is high - phosphate detergents and incredibly short and she has enzymes. been overpopulated to the point of mass starvation for years. If Companies genuinely unable India is in the final category, to afford pollution equipment, Ehrlich says, "then under the for instance, might receive triage system she should receive government grants, tax breaks or no more food." long - term loans to install Cruel? Perhaps. But if India equipment. Those able but indeed is beyond cure and she unwilling, similarly, might lose does take food aid that will not government contracts, pay a stave off any crisis, what mercy special "ecology tax," or face has been performed? Not only operational shutdown. does irreversible famine strike Technology as a whole must anyway, but the food shipped undergo drastic redirection if we there is lost to nations in the are at all to survive. We do not second, crucial category. merely need a slowing down to The most obvious necessity stop pollution. We must be we must enact has been evident prepared to handle the from the start. Government - remaining problems of the entire enforced population control is crisis before they eradicate us. the most vital factor of We also need a program to international level. all, on an Fight for your life provide food to hungry billions. Again, a system of incentives America will not starve in the and constraints can immediate future as much of the formulated. Easily easily be available with knowledge world will, but she will never be contraceptives, birth control These books and many more available able to feed the rest of the world informations, abortions (they at MSU Book Store past its time of crisis. Paul cost $2 each in some communist along with buttons Ghrlich proposes adopting the countries), sterilization, both and posters. Know so that you may care. triage system to handle mass voluntary and compulsory plus starvation. economic sanctions against more Author o! THE STATUS SEEKERS When medical facilities on a than two children. and THE HIDDEN PERSUADERS battlefield are inadequate to The idea of the city must handle the volume of casualties, inevitably evolve or change. We these casualties are divided by cannot afford to have medical personnel into three concentrated groups of polluters groups. In the first group are living in a single area that is men who will get better whether often untouchable arable they are treated or not. In the farmland. feSis li>e stsfiimg facts behind ifce Americas sMasopty and practices ot deliberate waste, Georg Borgstrom MSU Book Store In the Center for ,/A International Programs