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Will this massive outcry [about pollution] continue long enough to have effective results? will federal and state laws be enacted with effective enforcement clauses? will people be concerned long enough to pay the bill through higher prices? will towns tole lost jobs when it proves too costly to clean obsolete plants?... i think so, but it sure won't be as easy as the present outcry and political oratory suggest. the answers to preserving a livable environment are not all simple, and some of the nuts now pushing simplistic cure-alls won't help bring about any lasting solutions.
-Malcolm Forbes
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Will This Massive Outcry [about Pollution] Continue

Malcolm Forbes
Will this massive outcry [about pollution] continue long enough to have effective results? will federal and state laws be enacted with effective enforcement clauses? will people be concerned long enough to pay the bill through higher prices? will towns tole lost jobs when it proves too costly to clean obsolete plants?... i think so, but it sure won't be as easy as the present outcry and political oratory suggest. the answers to preserving a livable environment are not all simple, and some of the nuts now pushing simplistic cure-alls won't help bring about any lasting solutions.
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Today, about 40 percent of america's carbon pollution comes from our power plants. there are no federal limits to the amount those plants can pump into the air. none. we limit the amount of toxic chemicals like mercury, and sulfur, and arsenic in our air and water, but power plants can dump as much carbon pollution into our atmosphere as they want. it's not smart, it's not right, it's not safe, and i determined it needs to stop.
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State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a state, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to congress. ... inspection laws, quarantine laws, health laws of every description, as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a state, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c., are component parts of this mass. no direct general power over these objects is granted to congress, and, consequently, they remain subject to state legislation.
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We must recognize that the goal of a cleaner environment will not be achieved by rhetoric or moral dedication alone. it will not be cheap or easy and the costs will have to be borne by each citizen, consumer and taxpayer. how clean is clean enough can only be answered in terms of how much we are willing to pay and how soon we seek success... it is simplistic to seek ecological perfection at the cost of bankrupting the very tax-paying enterprises which must pay for the social advances we seek.
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Laws, it is said, are for the protection of the people. it's unfortunate that there are no statistics on the number of lives that are clobbered yearly as a result of laws: outmoded laws; laws that found their way onto the books as a result of ignorance, hysteria or political haymaking; antilife laws; biased laws; laws that pretend that reality is fixed and nature is definable; laws that deny people the right to refuse protection. a survey such as that could keep a dozen dull sociologists out of mischief for months.
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I hope a start at getting some oil out of the enormous alaska field isn't indefinitely mired in a bureaucratic morass as a result of our national concern for the ecology. this concern must not be so misguided, misdirected, misused that it serves to stop economic growth, to bankrupt companies, to stifle new development, new jobs, new horizons. in fighting new pollution and stemming present pollution, exciting, sometimes costly means and methods exist and others will evolve. but blanket legislative naysaying to expanding power and energy sources is stupid, self-defeating.
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