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THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1969 Pollution Export Believes World j May Become Unfit for Habitation, t major American farming areas imported to prey on the smaller i in 25 to 50 years unless action,pests to redress the balance of, was taken. j nature after the use of insec-j "If we arc to survive as in-|ticides. habitants of a world increas-i Professor Commoner said the' ingly transformed by techno!- world should start looking at; ogy." he said, "we need to re- the environment as a wnolei assess our attitudes towards instead of breaking it down in-1 the actual world on which our,to a number of sneciai disci-; technology intrudes." plincs when considering poliu-i Professor Commoner said!tion. Little leeway is left in: that the world had become en-the system, and "time is short,'/j iiOed into a nearly fatal illu-.he said. ten that we had at last es-i But Dr. Kenneth Mcllanby,' eaped from our dependence on chairman of the Soil Associa te rest of nature. lion's research adviser com- The professor asserted that mittce. said that all was not there was strong evidence that lost. the pollution problems resulted "The air of London today is from fundamental faults in cleaner than for a century," he technology. Triuinnhs in dr- asserted. "The Thames, until vdoping the modern autnmo- recently a stinking sewer, is bile have been balanced by much iess offensive, even if' failures in their operation, he additional impurities are taking) said. 'their toll. j "Once the automobile is al-1 "A concentration of some, lowed out of the factory ana persistent pesticides in ouri transformed." Professor Com- bodies and in our food is ue-i moncr added. "It then reveals dining. 1 hope we will disown i itself as an agent wiiirii has those Jeremiahs who say the; rendered urban air enreino-'countryside is totally ruined| Jgenic, burdened human bodies and their is nothing left worth| with nearly toxic levels of car- saving." L i f I 1 ** ; I 1 PRODUCED JM - 83.