Word: smog
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...With regard to the air pollution of Los Angeles, I recall that in the very beginning of the smog era, the city's transportation officials did what has proved to be a foolish thing. They eliminated all the electric trains that fed into the city from the suburbs and tore up their tracks...
There is no longer any argument in the U.S. that air pollution corrodes health and property alike. But the issue is now cloaked in political smog. Who should have the clear, primary responsibility for cleansing the atmosphere...
Every state and city, of course, must compete for industry. Because antipollution equipment and procedures are expensive, a stringent local program inevitably discourages new plants in the area. Other local interests can also come into play. When the Arizona legislature debated a smog-abatement bill last week, one member charged that it was discriminatory. "Under this bill," joked State Representative Lloyd House, a Democrat who is a Navajo Indian, "we would not be permitted to send up smoke signals." His real objection was that it violated tribal land rights. The bill passed anyway...
...development of swifter and smaller computers that find no end of applications on earth. The fuel cell used to supply electric power for Gemini spacecraft is being developed for commercial use, and its production of electricity from oxygen and hydrogen without burning hydrocarbons may be one answer to the smog problem that is increasing all over the world. Some scientists are already speculating about giant orbiting mirrors to light up a battlefield in Viet Nam or melt icebergs, free ice-locked harbors and shift storms from their natural courses. Weather control, to hear them tell it, is almost at hand...
...same time charge up the batteries. At points on the highways ap- proaching metropolitan areas, signs would warn the driver to switch to electric propulsion. He would then have enough electric power to carry him in and around the metropolitan area. The unfortunate ones living in the smog area would have to rely on the home battery charger...