Word: scrubbed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Republican President in the White House now may not poeticize trees -- he takes a certain pride in not poeticizing anything -- but he does have a fine secular appreciation of what trees do. They hold the earth and scrub the air. Chop them down, and the world becomes a moonscape in a greenhouse. Egypt's eastern desert is a cautionary text: each tree in the sparse landscape is under the protection of a Bedouin family. Sometimes the people build a wall around each tree to guard the leaves from goats...
Letting companies buy and sell the "right" to pollute may give them a strong incentive to scrub their smokestacks. But such a market could be a bureaucratic tangle...