This Land Is Your Land; 1; Documentary

the blue of the opera's ends this land is your land a continuing analysis of our physical environment reviews others serve german director of the advanced technology division of boston's brigham off quaid and douglas consulting engineers in new york city and adjunct associate professor of civil engineering and engineering mechanics at columbia university it was formally assistant professor of civil engineering at the massachusetts institute of technology together with you but the storm and we'll explore the problems of environmental control job interview discussion uncommon with this continuing series we'll keep you informed and up to date about air and water resources no oil is

solid waste disposal housing nutrition population transportation to recreation urban planning architecture engineering and the myriad of other subjects concerned with our physical environment and here with authors program aka gerald stone the physical environment is what is real torah senses air water food houses buildings rivers forests parks street lights trolley car subway stations playgrounds office towers and a thousand other things to touch snow here taste see live on livin live with and i love it a low that we needed and not only is it all there but it's all changing all the time the change in our environment is what causes the change in the quality of our lives when a familiar building at which you've been looking for twenty years as you ride to work in the morning is torn down to make way for a new office tower the quality of your life has changed or when the air you've been breathing slowly but surely becomes

more noxious and the water that you drink records more and more purification and your subway card becomes more hot and crowded and moves slower and your car doesn't move at all and your food is less nutritious and maybe even dangerous and you can't find a clean park or maybe any part at all and it takes two hours to get to the ocean which is filthy anyway and has nothing to do with stay home and listen to the birds except there aren't any more birds than the quality of your life is changing so we try to do something about it we build new buildings because the old ones are too crowded and the facilities in them are outmoded and we build new roads and streets and tunnels and dig new subways and planned new towns and tried to clean up the air and the water and bring back the birds we try but all the trying is also changing the quality of our lives the streets are always dug up the traffic is detoured the air is dusty and dirty for new construction you can decide whether to buy throwaway cans or deposit bottles biodegradable detergents or non phosphate

supply next cycle made some saccharin or plain old fat producing sugar or do we need more oil or cleaner oceans or more power for cleaner air and song and knows him and then it comes down to a problem of money if we want to retain a certain light quality or to approve it as best we can it takes money were told and lots of it and spending that money produces inflation were also told but not spending it reduces crime and disease and poverty and dirty air and water and pour transportation so again we have to make choices as we have politicians for to make choices but they're not always honest politicians which means that their choices are not always made for the best reasons even when they are honest they are not necessarily one often formed to make the best choices that's a problem we all have how can we be well enough informed to understand the problems that face us the alternative solutions to those problems the prices we have to pay for those solutions the politics involved in bringing project to fruition and the ultimate

effect of all that we decide to do unless we are well informed we can either make decisions your influence the politicians who make them the purpose of this program is to make a continuing and comprehensive analysis of the problems of our physical environment the problems involved are living in that environment and now the quality of our lives is affected will be looking for solutions but not necessarily unique solutions a keyword will be alternatives physical alternatives financial alternatives political alternatives and legislative alternatives we'll talk to people responsible for making decisions to those who generate the information necessary for decision making and to some of the men and women were doing the work of changing our environment or keeping unlivable they'll be a strong emphasis on the reality of getting things done most of the people with whom will be talking will be scientists architects engineers planners and

others or professional involved in problem solving the first group of shows will deal with a fundamental issues and serve as an introduction to the continuing program those that follow will go into the details of specific problems projects and issues of current interest occasional hours will be used to some a series of ideas that may have developed during several programs or to introduce a new series of programs for comprehensive exploration of specific ideas we hope you will stay with us and contribute to the program by writing and telling us the kinds of things about what you would like to hear we can discuss your favorite ride and interview the people who were responsible for or who might be able to do something about it remember this land is your land let's look first at the problem you will find it

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it's busy and for three of these kinds of pollution air pollution water pollution and noise pollution i don't have to elaborate on the fact that we can't live without air it's not a question of whether we can or cannot do without such a precious commodity but in what condition the air has to be so that we can use it safely sure you can stay alive and badly polluted air but are you going to be satisfied with a forty year lifespan or even if you live longer than that you may spend a good deal of your time battling an ugly assortment of respiratory diseases oh well look i hear you say i live in the suburbs though work in an air conditioned office stay

out of coal mine cement factories and chemical plants and i expect live a long time well you don't know the half of it rather than my trying to explain it to you let's listen to dr rosalind barbash a member of the new jersey council on clean air and water he describes the environment of a typical commuter as rights to work in the morning in his personal pollution machine i'm here i was driving to work as single person there and a very large complex have seen with about potential it absolutely can't use his car can easily do ninety miles an hour and is more efficient its higher speeds but he had to drive it in the snarl of traffic at a low rate is the yarn we have to keep that idling a good part of the time in either case he operates his car at the least level of efficiency and while you're doing this he created with his fellow drivers a chemical coleman waits can chill and certainly can't hurt him i see you know the high levels of carbon monoxide family until after the car

ahead of him and he's giving as good as he got into the car behind him he combined amount of carbon monoxide with his blood cells within that matter in his self esteem and love than to affect his brain and it does it affects his eye reflexes it effects is discrimination of time since annexing the worst driver as well as hurting and otherwise steady hand to have a cardiac problems at the week in the cardiac department his are which is already under stress is deny oxygen because of this combination of oxygen hemoglobin which is the last thing the capacity to take on oxygen and is lessening his capacity to deliver oxygen to his heart muscle and other tissues while this was going on he's receiving a morning share of oxides of nitrogen oxidants animated cartoons all due to a definition is finishing a power source which cantor and field to harmless ingredients of water

and carbon dioxide and even that said question about that time with that in addition to being an efficient snatches nitrogen right out of the air and the president's in what satellite images sets up a lethal chemical factory right there in the atmosphere is a natural compound that are developed or inhaled and the entire primary system is ravaged these waivers of the lungs a little hair like things called cell year i panic attack allies and even destroy them you just glance or overstimulated a minute this is intense fear of that then the moment isn't it this movement of mucus swept out that these little silly or is not protective mechanism against fine particles and against bacteria and that lessens our ability to have infection strengthens us against an invasion of bacteria is all interviewed with babbitt thompson from the auto emissions very seldom is

that you're attracted to spoil the airlines with what in the architecture the xx is weekend is destroyed here are the first that was in the nineties and besides we have carcinogens in the air we have substances banned bahrain and other materials that cancer provoking a little bit he has this huge sign of lead lead pipe was coming from his leaded gasoline to improve its so so potent prove its a rare quality among those not only apple reading one of the car but are inching into the blood and the bone of the job and staying anyone want a boy used car it's not just the car of course if anything that

produces power requires power and that's about anything that gets you anywhere where does the job for you from jet planes to one once so are all breathing in carbon monoxide oxides of nitrogen sulfur dioxide out of lives led hydrocarbons in some other delicious morsels that are turning our lungs intersecting sacks of irritated and destroyed mucous membranes taxing our hearts and shortening our laws and we do it because we have to get where we're going and we have to generate power to keep everything running and all that power generation means burning fuels which reduce those nasty lung tumors and it's not just pollution that's affecting the air the four hundred currently projected supersonic transports designed to cruise at eighteen hundred miles an hour seventy thousand feet above sea level would inject about one hundred and fifty thousand tons of water vapor into the stratosphere daily enough to increase transfer temperature of

cloudiness and perhaps affect the earths surface temperature it's clear that almost all of our activities create air pollution in one form or another that's the reason air pollution increase is at least in industrialized societies like ours air pollution is also very expensive the cost of respiratory illnesses aggravated if not caused by air pollution has recently been estimated at two billion dollars a year it seems clear that we either have to stop our industrial economic growth figure out a way of doing away with air pollution or cough to death we have no intention of returning are two hundred million people to an agrarian wife and we certainly don't want to die coffin so we have to develop a way to stop the pollution of our air before it stops us there certainly are most important life support you do without it for only a few minutes it takes a little longer before a lack of water catches up with you but water is certainly our second most essential life support we use it

for other things to clean the wash and wash the car and what a lawn and take a bath and do the dishes and sail the boat and oh i do as lance with all the polluted lakes rivers and streams you can't go swim swim swim a very much anymore in his nineteen sixty five address to congress on natural beauty lyndon b johnson noted that every major river system in the united states was polluted it's not just the reverse all of our bodies of water are in trouble consider like here in detroit cleveland buffalo akron toledo in a dozen other cities for millions of tons of sewage into the like every

day some of it is treated much of it is not a detroit river which feeds lake erie carries every day in addition to detroit's largely untreated sewage nineteen thousand gallons of oil one hundred thousand pounds of iron two hundred thousand pounds of various asset and two million pounds of chemical sorts the fertilizers use on the farms of ohio pennsylvania and new york drain into the streams that pour into lake erie paper mills in them under a wary of michigan poor volumes of pollutants into the like still neighbors porno scale oil grease picking solution and rinse water the army engineers dredge and harbors and channels of the area and dump sludge into the middle of lake erie if you dug a bunch of sewage or fertilizer or other biologically rich material into a body of water the alto grow faster than the fish can eat them out our life forms that use up whatever free oxygen might be in the water which makes it tough for other life forms beaches become covered with l join the form of slime and so does the surface of the like other

kinds of pollutants tie up the oxygen and chemical combination so that it's not available to life forms in the leg when the biochemical oxygen demand that's b o d about which you may have heard gets too high the lady said to be dead many of our lakes are rapidly dying there's another form of pollution that's taking its toll of her life quality noise it's everywhere in the home stairs the peak it's beans

and for three it's b of course we are all aware that the world is a noisy place or perhaps were not so aware of what that noise is costing us in terms of health money and environmental quality

the most common and serious forms of organic heart disease or those affecting the kerner a arteries would supply blood to the heart when the passageway inside one of these vessels become sufficiently narrowed or is blocked by a clot a heart attack may occur because of death is the reduction of the blood flow and consequently the delivery of oxygen to the tissues without the necessary oxygen the tissues die the thickening of the artery walls is caused by the deposit of cholesterol another fadi substances that float in the blood though diet is popularly associated with increases in cholesterol levels stress has been demonstrated to increase cholesterol and other fat levels and contribute to the thickening of the arterial walls stress increases the secretion of adrenaline and this in turn increases the amount of free fatty acids in the bloodstream an increase associated with an elevation of cholesterol it has been demonstrated that loud noises cause adrenal hormones the group released into the bloodstream to intensify tension and arousal and noise cause a heart attack probably not directly annoys

contribute to heart disease and create an environment hostile to recover and the answer seems to be yes the millions of americans with diagnosed or suspected heart disease seem to have a stake in noise abatement heart disease anyone canadian researchers have sought a correlation between the noise level of a passing vehicle and the extent of arousal from sleep observations of changes in the brain wave patterns have shown that the deep sleep stage can be cut short by the passing of a single truck the canadian national research council studies show that some subjects they awaken more than fifty percent of the time at the fifty decibels noise level of a passing truck at seventy decibels the most probable reaction is to awaken

some sources recommended interiors of bedrooms not exceed thirty or thirty five decibels the fact that such a low noise levels can so profoundly influenced the sleeping state takes on great significance when one realizes the transportation modes and air conditioners exposed millions of sleeping people to noise levels of fifty decibels and much higher sleep deprivation leads to psychic corporations such as irritability tiredness delirium and even paranoia state's long term sleep deprivation they cause irreversible changes in the nervous system three we pay high price in health reducing stress for all of the noise we must

tolerate noise also cost us a lot of plain old money the dollar cost of noise and some of its aspects is vague or to put one's finger on although certainly real enough in industry alone noises a huge hit an extravagance some authorities are convinced that the potential cost of noise induced hearing loss is greater than that of any other occupational disease in the city's lawyers as the chief cause of radical turnover cities pay for this in the deterioration of their neighborhoods the geographically extensive impact of aviation and highway noise affects the entire social and economic structure of the city this bill not too many years ago a congressional

hearing received this list of litigation do to aircraft noise atlanta seventy three suits pending for a total of five million dollars memphis twenty suits pending aggregating two million new york a suit filed by eight hundred and eight plaintiffs against thirty nine airlines and the port of newark authority totaling a million dollars seattle two hundred suits pending totaling a million dollars was it was thirty eight claims totaling a million other claims in ontario san francisco dallas denver houston jackson oklahoma city phoenix omar portland san antonio spokane and tap that sonic boom was from an f one hundred and interior department study makes the conservative estimate that the expected continual annual cost of repairing damage to houses and other structures from sonic booms not counting the cost of processing claims or inspection of damages is at least thirty five million dollars and possibly more than eighty million dollars per year

expensive isn't it a loss in environmental quality due to noise is it uncommon to defect to the loss and health and money if we are in a constant state of tension and fatigue due to noise and loss of sleep there is not much quality to living at all let's move away from pollution and talk about some of the other environmental problems that we have things anime disney media analyst is saying i wish it were that easy to provide adequate housing

it's no secret that our nation is in the thick of a severe housing crisis this crisis has persisted for many years despite a good deal of political hullabaloo about getting things done including the signing of a series of bills what we document the issues despite the historic national housing act of nineteen forty nine and nineteen sixty eight federal study estimated that about seven point eight million american families that's one in every eight could not afford to pay the market price for standard housing that would cost no more than twenty percent of their total incomes about half of the seven point eight million people are surviving on less than three thousand dollars per year the federal poverty level the same study projected the size of this gap in nineteen seventy eight assuming no more changes in current economic trends national policies and priorities among federal programs the projection show that the prevalence of poverty can be expected to decline only slightly in nineteen seventy eight about seven point five million families one in every ten would still be unable

to afford standard housing about four point four million people in the nineteen sixty eight study lived in urban areas with fifty thousand or more people it is predicted that four point five million of the family is expected to require housing assistance in nineteen seventy eight will be urban dwellers again assuming no more changes in current economic trends national policies and priorities among federal programs the number of urban residents with substandard housing as expected to increase the nineteen sixty eight study indicated that twenty six million new housing units would be needed by nineteen seventy eight that's an average of two point six million new housing units per year in october of nineteen seventy the seasonally adjusted annual rate was one point five five million new units more than one million units below that required to provide adequate housing for all we'll be back in a moment after a station identification

let's turn our attention away from the national housing needs and look at new york city where the crisis has become more severe than in any city in the nation but at the same time indicative of the problems in many cities on november twenty ninth nineteen seventy rogers starr executive director of the citizens housing and planning council reported in the new york times the new york city needs sixty six thousand new units a year to balance the family formations with new homes to keep abreast of deterioration and abandonment about thirty eight thousand units are abandoned annually and to make reasonable inroads in the stock of occupied but grossly unsatisfactory units remember that number sixty six thousand housing units a year just to stay even with the

demand on november fifteenth two weeks earlier albert a walsh the administrator of new york city's housing and development administration reported in that same newspaper that only nineteen thousand units per year is what the city is getting from private or probably assisted builders and from the new york city housing authority all lumped together voss the city is producing less than one third of the number of units required just to stay even it's clear new york is falling behind at an incredible rate that is a housing crisis of major proportions the toll human misery exacted by the working out and life of these cold statistics is one of the most serious problems of our urban environment and we're holding an iphone that horrified way down from orlando and many cuts on only one

will tolerate be done at the warrants and so they're basically about the month end live on beyond the us you know i'm waiting you know waiting until a farmer you heard from alpine mistake on the part of republicans and they've set a place you really got me here are some of my firsthand impressions of the new york neighborhood taped during a recent drive around town as we go further east state of disrepair becomes greater and greater on the corner of madison avenue street buildings are all but as we go further onto their

history there seems to be a very very poor the state of disrepair coming up to a park avenue in the nineteen thirties st louis new york central track structure above us to test a dismal report on the industry the central cores of most of our big cities and a good many of our smaller ones as well are rushing through abuse and a gentle neglect of the problems of the urban poor especially housing many rural areas are also badly depressed there are about three and a half million people living in substandard conditions in rural america see me all

in in her book the death and life of great american cities jane jacobs expresses a central and serious problem of slums slums in their populations are the victims and the perpetual years a seemingly endless troubles to reinforce each other slums operate as vicious circles in time these vicious circles and mash the whole operation of cities spreading sounds require ever greater amounts of public money and not simply more money for public financed improvement or just a even but more money to cope with ever widening retreat and regression as needs grow greater the wherewithal grows less we're seeing that happen now throughout the united states the statistics on new housing construction as compared with indeed bears witness to our continuing retreat and regression housing and crisis are synonymous with an ornate is

ruining know i am not alone in this ruling lets talk now about transportation the paintings it is don't need the pain do you really want to go for a ride in the car a car if the pollution don't get to the traffic will if the traffic don't get to another car will hatch well there's always the boss or that his victory

something welcome to the world of transportation the american way of life is synonymous with the concept of mobility we love to move far and fast and often all day every day and when we get where we're going we get up and go again somewhere else it's the american way every kid dreams of the day when he gets his first wheels he starts with a bicycle moves to motor scooter ride a motorcycle and a hot rod in a convertible a sports car and the big sedan in a station wagon and two cars in three cars and in california for cars we buy them new and old shiny and shattered and wash them and polish them and raise them and smash them and they end up an empty lots or abandoned on the streets and highways or even in museums when were not lasting and bashing along the highways and streets were zigzagging in giant jets across the continent are leaving every

half hour to get to boston or washington or chicago or los angeles or san francisco or london and there's lots of us the new york subways hustle four million people from home to work and back again every day more than any other system in the world well it sounds exciting i guess maybe it is this transportation dynamic creates a lot of gross national product also a lot of pollution gets us where we want to go expands our business opportunities keeps us in touch with people places and things and legislative the whole nation as if it really belongs to all of us we pay a heavy price for that which i'll describe a little later what's wrong then other than the pollution okay let's examine some of the details of all of this moving around all thought

that might be the lament of the average commuter consider that poor guy coming in to work on the wall street area from long island as many thousands do everyday orders alternatives well first there is private transportation the automobile ha ha ha assuming that he gets out of bed at a reasonable hour say seven am and after his morning abortions gets into his car and on the highway and eight his

average speed into the city will be about fifteen miles per hour of course his car and a one hundred and twenty but the other drivers keep getting in his way he stops and starts grunts and grumbles brings lots of fumes and listens to the cheerful voice flying above a helicopter telling him to avoid the road is on because there was a truck overturned in the left lane ahead of where his creeping along in the summer his engine overheats and in the winter the snow and ice slow the traffic down even more every six months someone bangs into his car and at fifteen mph that will cost him three hundred and fifty dollars in repairs after which he will have his insurance rates raised by forty five percent are off the policy will be cancelled altogether well he finally arrives in new york at nine o'clock and gets on to the east river drive which is also moving at fifteen mph and work his way down to lower manhattan by now it is nine twenty he partially open lot the costs and seventy five dollars a month is ninety dollars a month lieutenant and walks eight blocks to

his office which he finally reaches at nine thirty he's been up out of bed for two and a half hours has traveled a grand total of fifteen miles has been thoroughly gassed by carbon monoxide and a host of other long killers i spent approximately five dollars and depreciation gasoline tolls and parking and has managed to go from his home to his office it does

is to take public transportation in the form of the commuter rail what is trained on her no download this display panel this training is to say there's been this same as bart say that it's a bomb threats this is it rising again at seven o'clock he rushes to make the dough six long island railroad train at his local station which doesn't show up until late twenty seven due to a faulty switch he forces his way on to the packed train overcrowded because two of the cars had to be left behind beautiful tea breaks the train creeps along

from station to station finally arriving in new york only thirty five minutes late and iron bar had to be removed from the tracks along the way he then moves along with the rest of the silent on smiling crowd through filthy stations and drafty passageways reeking of urine the walls are plastered with obscene graffiti and tasteless advertising and finds two square feet in which to stand and wait with the swaying crowd at the edge of the platform the train comes roaring in with a deafening rush of noise accompanied by a dirt laden wind you can see the passengers victims was a better description of his hapless mass pack against the doors the train stops with an ear piercing screech the doors bang opened and the sea of people bowl just through the opening spilling into any available space among awaiting platform crowds hardly moving his feet he's forced by the pressure of the crowd behind him into the still packed the car and finds himself wedged into an infinitesimal space the doors close

open close open close family and the train lurches ahead everyone is thrown back a few inches but years of writing this machine teaches them that the mechanics of retaining balance through all sorts of random jerky motions is nothing to hold onto and has to keep his hands moral as rigid aside for fear of being accused of perversion if he touches someone and stares blankly at advertising cards you seen a dozen times before or the dirt accumulated along every age exposed in the car he downed up look anyone in the audi or smile anonymity and privacy must be retained throughout any and all discomfort he finally reaches its destination after being forced out of the car and other stations because he was near the door and was swept out with the departing crowd he passes through the exit and starts up the stairs to the street on the stairs the when the sweeping down from the street on to the platform blows dirt in his face and he got something in his eye he stops on the stair and the guy behind him or

sent to him mutter something unintelligible and moves on when he gets to the street it is crowded with pedestrians he walks half on the street in half on the sidewalk dodging pedestrians cars and trucks all the way until the gravesite and i muttered invective he enters for another day at work for the privilege of experiencing the superb environment he pays about three dollars a day this friday though their speed not this was trying to be a moment's thought by any of us who have ever made this trip is enough to realize that there is no exaggeration in these descriptions afterward we discuss the effects of air pollution or noise a human video can there be any doubt that the commuter must suffer terrific physical damage the toll in lung cancer emphysema heart disease and other major killers must be strongly related to such poor condition conditions in which the

body is subject to other high pollution levels accompanied by stress or high stress and noise levels of company by a cute physical discomfort many cities are the forties new york they dont have underground mass transit the only public transportation mode that they can choose is the bus usually slow about polar noisy and in many cities very expensive the thirty cent new york there is still one of the world's lowest considering the distances you can travel well i guess urban commuter transportation is in pretty bad shape but what about long distance travel that's pretty efficient the interstate highway system was the best in the world and we have frequent flights to everywhere flying can be exciting experience can also be extremely frustrating and right at the airport you may have to walk a half a mile or more to get from your ground transportation to the airport then if you're lucky your plane leaves the ground within a half hour after the scheduled

departure time it's usually necessary to wait at least that long sitting in the blind still on the ground in a takeoff due at the other end there may be delays of an hour or more this time in an air traffic you were you spend the time flying in circles waiting to land when the plane does finally land you may have to wait another ten or fifteen minutes until an arrival gate is available then it's another half mile walk from the plane to ground transportation or to a connecting flight if you add up all these possible delays and throw in the time it takes to both ends every of light to get from the central city to the airport a trip from downtown new york downtown chicago can take as much as seven hours the ads for adrenaline airways tell you that chicago is only two hours away but it just ain't so i hope you'll remember getting there is half the phone to

harrisburg yup there's much disillusioned they're all right if you think i'm exaggerating ask your favorite businessman about his airport experiences no doubt he'll tell you were stories than about one i sat on a plane for four hours at o'hare waiting for a snowstorm to let up and lots of people are stranded overnight at airports all the time visitor local airport it looks like a campground yes i am telling the worst side of the air transportation story when it runs smoothly nothing beats at forgetting where you want to go until you get to the business of moving along the ground then you are is earthbound as ever in the usual sea of traffic many airports are a long way from central cities and very few have rapid transit on a direct line cleveland doesn't it's fast and efficient although they recently raised the rates from forty cents to seventy five for the trip to the airport it's only twenty minutes from the

center of the city to the airport but if you have a lot of banks to carry forget there are no borders on the transit new york is putting in a new line from kennedy to manhattan and that'll have baggage handling things do sometimes get better san francisco was going in that direction too what about the train the problem there is that it's too slow too and frequent and too expensive you can't go across country on a single train we've all heard i guess that only a hog and do that there are some fast trains the metro on her travels a hundred and twenty miles an hour between new york and washington but it still takes three hours which is much too slow the turbo train goes about ninety from new york to boston the air shuttle still these both of them and washington and boston are two of the best cities for air travel convenience since their airports are practically right in the middle of the city of course that makes it difficult to expand and they're both getting terribly credit but logan and national are still good places to get in and out of nowhere i tried to take a train recently from new york to cleveland you know one of those crack express things a cookie

cox along leading you after a good night's sleep in the middle of the city at a reasonable hour of the morning there is no such thing any longer just the good ole twenty are noteworthy pure torture he's funny they do this disease most of the problems about which we've spoken today are common to every city in the

united states even the smaller ones and other cities in the world report the same goals but these are densely populated urban areas where the unnatural crowding of people on people is expected to generate disorder and disaster but what are a vast country from sea to shining sea the spacious skies in the purple mountains majesty and the city dweller a wiry with bearing the burden of urban living refreshes sense of self in the cool stream of a mountain river quiet and alone with nature kenny watch unspoiled natural process he's working out their infinitely various rhythms with a balance and harmony that we and our own human systems have failed either through inability or ignorance to imitate when the average human tide swept over north america and laid waste not only to the level forest lands but reached up the mountains is well thank god cried for oh they cannot get down the clouds most of the mammoth kills of bighorn sheep buffalo elk caribou moose bear is amanda lopes were for boasting the pioneers massacred the

buffalo to take out the town and left the rest to rot in the midwest dynamite thrown into the thousands of keening lakes destroyed forever the ecological colonies that had been building up since the recession of the last glacier for generations we spare the rainbow bridge that nature build and even declared it a national monument but suddenly under the impact of a growing population and the claims of economic progress it had to give way with the construction of the glen canyon dam the newly created waters of lake powell lap about the natural wonder that we as a nation in our presumed affluence could not afford to keep in violent the dam builders also threaten the bob marshall wilderness area of montana with the sun beat down there are a dozen other stories are told that we have destroyed america's wildness in nineteen sixty four spurred by public outcry some pricking conscience the national park service collaborated with the national geographic society in a thorough study of the redwoods and came up with plans for a wonderful park on redwood and

carries creeks a park of ninety thousand acres which is smallest national parks go it would include prairie's creek state park plus thirty three thousand acres of the best remaining untouched stands within its boundaries would be eighty miles of rare coastline where the last of the roosevelt elks rome it would save the world's tallest trees but the secretary of the interior came forth with a bill under the pressure of the logging interests that is a painful substitute for the park service proposal centering on mill creek in del norte a county the proposed administration park would take in only forty three thousand eight hundred acres hardly big enough for a redwood to lie down in one third of the area is already a part of to state parks all the secretary a doll's proposal amounted to was to link up with these two state parks with that say one thousand eight hundred acres of virgin

redwood forest and the purchase of an outline watershed already seventy five percent cut over the concept of wildness is a difficult one to bring to people i've had for years in my office two posters each bearing furrows comment in wildness is the preservation of the world i'm asked many times about the meaning of those words the best answer is the one given by throw himself writing in walden we need the tonic of wildness to wait sometimes in marshes with a bitter and in the meadow and work and hear the booming of the sniper to smell the whispering said shh we're only some wilder and more solitary fall built her nest and the minute crawls with its belly close to the ground at the same time that we're earnest to explore and learn all things we require that all things be mysterious and unexplored all that land and sea be infinitely wild and surveyed a non fire bombed by us because unfathomable we can never

have enough of nature we must be refreshed by the side of inexhaustible vigor fast in titanic features the seacoast with a threat the wilderness with its living and became trees the thunder clouds in the rain which lasts three weeks and produces freshets we need to witness our own limits transgressed and some life pass trade freely where we never wander for all attempts to sing a note harmonious with nature and explaining to us our need for natural experiences everything we've discussed today strikes a discordant note of complaint perhaps we are wrong to complain do we expect too much of our physical environment should we be satisfied with our existence we do have an awful lot of material things that our forefathers never dreamed of yet we are complaining perhaps more than men ever complained before where have we gone wrong what is there about your lives that makes us so dissatisfied have we lost something we once had or are we looking for something we never had are we

moving towards a disaster of some kind in which our civilization will destroy itself or the problem solvable or of a hopeless should we bother to spend the time money and effort to attempt to solve them what should we get up and start over again on another planet or on the moon who or what is to blame for all of our problems is our whole society at fault or there are a handful of powerful people that control the rest of us have we all been guilty of negligence or we innocent victims who can help us what can we do how can we do it where do we get the resources the men the time the money the will of power what i believe is this the quality of our lives has deteriorated this land is no longer your land or milo and we have ensnared ourselves in the steel mesh of immutable progress the land belongs to our agreed to our desire to possess and control nature to be totally independent of nature

we've been wanting in our destruction and our consumption in order to build our civilizations our monuments to our superiority over nature we have found it necessary to consume indiscriminately and without plan we are now finding that nature has not been a passive reset or of the social problems in our cities and the problems in our whole environment are directly related to our inability or unwillingness to live in harmony with nature by attempts to create more and more technology that would allow us to live without nature we have separated men more and more away from nature we've created an alien being elliot even to himself and to his brother we are no longer a natural and had no natural order of life or morality guards our behavior thus we poisoned our air and pluto water boil garbage in our streets and run each other down with machines abuse our children and turn to artificial stimulants to keep our senses from realizing the horrible reality of our existence

we kill each other in the streets and what's the slaughter of ourselves and others and a lighted screen in the darkened rooms of flimsy shelters behind three locks and a vicious dog what has gone wrong has to do with the quality of our physical environment that quality has deteriorated because we do not have the sense to understand that nature will not allow us to consumer gifts indefinitely we grew too fast in number and in power without income into growth in wisdom we are now paying the price for that growth is it possible to move out of the dark and into the light of environmental wisdom i can only hope so i know that if we do not try there will be nothing left but a vicious band of angry desperate nomads attempting to stay alive on a parched earth in a dying atmosphere i believe there is hope we do have a vast nation still rich in nature and we can still retaining much of what is left and restore

some of what has been ruined our nation has developed through meeting the challenge of its frontiers but we are proud of the race and we have over spent our resources the frontier we now face is that of conservation and restoration it is a frontier of attitude we must be willing to express our maturity as a nation to save and restore our life sources so that our children will be able to say as it walt whitman far from the clank of crowds intervals passing wrapped and happy aware of the fresh free giver the flowing misery aware of mighty niagara aware of the buffalo herds raising the planes they pursued and strong breasted ball of earth rocks fifth month flowers experienced star as rain snow miami is having studied the mockingbirds tones and the flight of the mountain hawks and heard at dawn the unrivaled one the hermit thrushes from the swamp cedars

solitary singing in the west i strike up for a new world you've been listening to this land is your land i'm continually analysis of our fiscal environment you interview discussion on you know mathers sir at it sabo

loan me that golden valley this land was made from our own that graham jones of our that's our slam her diamond deserts all around made of course was sounding this land was made that we believe me set me me this land is your land this land in

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