Poison from Above

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January/February 1983
By Paul and Anne Ehrlich 
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And there are political ironies in the situation, as well. Other routes that may be taken by the poisons mobilized by acid rains in Colorado's high Rockies are the aquifers of the approximately 200 alpine valleys of the state . . . and that would contaminate the once pristine ground-water flow. Yet one of the great advocates of environmentally unsound development of the western United States is a Colorado beer baron whose fortune was generated by the purity of Colorado water. One of these days, he may find only poisoned liquid gushing from the wells that serve his breweries.

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John Harte (University of California at Berkeley) and Robert Lewis (Environmental Research Group, Aspen) have helped a great deal in the preparation of this column. It's also based on material in Paul and Anne Ehrlich's Extinction: The Causes and Consequences of the Disappearance of Species (Random House, 1981, $15.95), where further documentation on acid rains may be found. For a summary of the threat to Europe's forests, see Fred Pearce's "The Menace of Acid Rain"; New Scientist , August 12, 1982.

The Ehrlichs' work is supported in part by a grant from the Koret Foundation of San Francisco.

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