tailieunhanh - Smog - A REPORT TO THE PEOPLE Episode 8

Tham khảo tài liệu 'smog - a report to the people episode 8', kỹ thuật - công nghệ, cơ khí - chế tạo máy phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | PART II. SECTION 11 6 State and local air pollution officials have predicted that the present control program will lead to clean air that is air that meets California air quality standards by 1990 Calculations by the EQL team indicate this could not be the case. The reason is growth in sources of emissions additional vehicles additional plants and additional pollution-making affluence. The present strategy will not lead to clean air nor will the EQL program. By about 1982 air quality will begin to deteriorate again. The real rationale for EQL Strategy 1 which is to say the rationale for doubling what we are presently doing about air pollution is to get much closer to the clean air goal before we are overtaken by growth. This will also give us much more time to make the really radical changes in life-styles transportation modes and technology that are needed for a long-term solution to the air quality and other environmental problems. With so many people and so many pollution sources in the Basin it is not low emissions but zero emissions that are required. Small battery-operated commuter cars would be an example of zero-emissions transportation mode that may be no further away than the next decade. But they would have to be coupled with zero-emissions energy sources such as nuclear power plants located outside the Basin. Solar energy conversion is another zero-emissions energy source which could play an increasingly important role in the longterm. Nuclear energy has proved controversial but only mildly so compared to some of the socio-economic measures that must be considered for the ultimate cure to air pollution. Growth itsetf will have to be directly dealt with. The finite carrying capacity of the Los Angeles Basin became apparent in the 1970 s. Incentives for resettlement elsewhere accompanied by zoning rollbacks and embargos on utility hook-ups for new customers are examples of interrelated growth-control policies which may have to be considered. The final .