SMOG IS KILLING THOUSANDS EVERY YEAR
Toronto, Ontario, Canada (JFK+50) In an article dated September 10, 1960 published in Maclean's Magazine, the dangers of pollution in modern cities is described. The article states...
"The haze that shrouds our cities...contains, like the (Atomic) Bomb, the elements of destruction."
An air pollution* committee reported in 1957 that the negative effects of pollution "may range from mental depression...to cancer and death."
Maclean's reports that smog is the unburned fuel that our homes and factories, ships and trains belch into the air as soot and sulphur dioxide. The polluted air includes the partly burned gasoline of motor vehicles, waste gases from factories, pulverized rubber, asphalt and coal.
The average city, Maclean's says, dumps 4 to 5 million particles.
*pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment causing adverse change. The burning of coal and wood & presence of many houses & factories made cities the primary sources of air pollution.
SOURCE
"We're Breathing In The Chemical Garbage of a Complex Civilization," Maclean's Magazine, September 10, 1960, www.archive.macleans.ca/
Air Pollution in Cleveland, Ohio (1973)
Photo by Frank J. Aleksandrowicz
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