Air pollution
. Sir, — The behaviour of l 'some people towards door-j (ways, litter bins and) i officers is offensive but is j ! not yet the out-of-hand haz-j ard to mass health as is the (■irritating petrol and diesel 1 j air pollution. An irritated: ■ man gets angry where a, clear-headed one would act! ■ 1 positively. Let us tune regu-■ | larly those vehicles on the 1 road all day. Ironically, exhausts of many city andI ‘ Waimairi rubbish collection! trucks really stink, apart l 'from blackening houses and: I (lungs. Remember the fuel) 'burnt is converted to an! equal weight of exhaust gas.) Any teacher knows how lack, of fresh air affects pupils.) Green plants produce oxygen: but their decomposition! ■ reuses what was produced.) ! Fossilisation of green plants! I before decomposition pro-) ! duces a net balance of oxy-' gen. We are rapidly undoing; millions of years of Nature’s 1 work by burning petroleum. — Yours, etc., B.R.S. May .30, 1975.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33857, 31 May 1975, Page 14
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