¶ Pollution
Index Entry
Pollution:
“Ignorant humans aboard Space Vehicle Earth are now screaming, “Pollution!” There is no such phenomenon. What they call pollution is extraordinarily valuable chemistry essential to Universe and essential to man on Earth. What is happening is that the egocentricity of omnispecialized man makes him ignorant of the value with which his processing is confronting him. The yellow-brown content of fume and smog is mostly sulfur. The amount of sulfur going out of the smokestacks around the world each year is exactly the same as the amount of sulfur being taken from the Earth each year to keep the world ecology going. It would be far less expensive to catch that sulfur while concentrated in the stack, and to distribute it to the original users, than tb do the original mining and to get it out of human lungs, etcetera, when all the costs to society over a deteriorating 25 years are taken into account. But humanity insists on holding to this year’s profits, crops, and elections. World society is lethally shortsighted.”
¶ Citations
- RBF Introduction to Gene Youngblood’s EXPANDED CINEMA, 1970. p. 21.
