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...Cities, states and nations will continue to clamor for new industry even though it contaminates the air and pollutes the lakes and streams. You see, those belching smokestacks symbolize prosperity. And we congratulate ourselves on the good fortune to live in this effluent society...
...even in managing pollution, surely not enough to make the improvements that are needed." To add economic incentive to the fight, the panel suggested that air and water polluters be taxed in proportion to how much they despoil the environment. The scientists had a name for the proposed levy: "effluent charges...
...Effluent Society. New battles flare up as fast as the U.S. grows. Each and every day, the average American disposes of four pounds of trash-a total of 540 million Ibs. throughout the nation. "The 'effluent' society," Justice Douglas calls it. The Interior Department warns that "if trends continue unchecked, in another generation a trash pile or piece of junk will be within a stone's throw of any person standing anywhere on the American continent...
...assume that a majority of the electorate favors all provisions of this bill. I disagree. And only a national referendum could prove one of us wrong. If the American Mainstream has truly become a polluted effluent bound for the Gulf of Socialism, I will swim upstream with Barry -where the water is clean, the air pure, and the trees tall. This is where the American Dream was spawned...
William Lyon Phelps, the effluent literary critic from New Haven, has recently stated in an interview in the Pennsylvanian that college men spend half their time studying, and that the time spent not so doing is one of the important reasons why men go to college. It is the professor's opinion that the required work could be completed in two years, but if this were done to the exclusion of extra-curricular and social activities most of the benefit to be derived from a college education would be lost...