Abstract
That air is a common domain few would deny; but it does not follow that everyone enjoys a boundless right to gasify garbage, any more than one may dump solid garbage on the common streets. In the articles that follow, the Bulletin concludes its present series on “Man and His Habitat” with an examination of man's relationship to the air around him.James P. Dixon, president of Antioch College, calls for air conservation as an objective of public policy. S. Smith Griswold, air pollution control officer of Los Angeles county, totals the dollar and cent cost of air pollution—so far as anyone knows. Thomas D. Crocker, instructor of economics at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, tells of the end to peaceful coexistence in an area that once supported citrus, cattle, and phosphorus industries in harmony. Mason Gaffney, chairman of the economics department of the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, establishes criteria for rational public air management.The article by Griswold is based upon a paper presented to the 1964 European Conference on Air Pollution. The articles by Dixon and Gaffney are based upon materials prepared for the Air Conservation Commission of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, of which Dr. Dixon was chairman. The full report of the commission will be published by the AAAS in September 1965.As Dr. Dixon remarks: “the air envelope is finite, and limited indeed is that portion of the envelope available for the use of a given population.” Will we invoke “the unique exercise of human choice”—while we may?
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