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A.W. ARUNDEL uuinan water, air ana land reserves.
Until recent years, handwringing about the impact of man and his stunning new technological uses of air, land and sea have been only a small ripple swept up in the huge tide of American economic and population expansion — congressmen and businessmen alike marching to the siren drum of growth. It was a non-issue of alarm commonly spoken to by virtually every candidate in the country during the recent elections.
Now growing grassroots realization over these things has turned politicians into ecologists, and we have begun marching to a different drum, the urgent counterbalancing need for environmental control with the teeth of law in the common interest.
We have seen it all perhaps best in one capsule study — Florida’s huge Everglades. Construction began there across that swamp some years ago of a huge new international jet airport to serve the Miami area. It all seemed logical enough — a 5,000square-mile swamp of no apparent value to more than mosquitos and alligators.
Opposition had come then to Everglades development only from a few bird lovers and pointy-headed naturalists. Bless their concern, the political bosses said, but in such matters the needs of humans come first.
It was all very obvious. Trees are for lumber, and the swamp a stinking breeder of pests.
It was obvious — prairies are to plow. Air is for getting rid of smoke. Lakes are obviously for boats. Rivers are for waste disposal to the oceans. Coastlines are for jetties to make beach cottages. Swamps are for draining to provide homes and uses
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