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<br /> <br />I <br />\ <br />! <br /> <br /> <br />Forget PCB's. Radon. Alar. <br /> <br />The world's greatest <br />environmental dangers are dung smolee <br />and dirty waler. <br /> <br />BY GREGG EASTERBROOK <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br /> <br />I" J..mJ t.Jt~ e,f; 501r,I, HI PO.,_...._PWICt, U"""lM _'n" ..ed!o. b.rhi"C.mi J.."Jllfl, II <br />o(f~,,-I1I7 .......11. r/fIHrrfl dm"'rrnJ fro". Am""." "'dorin. <br /> <br />WHAT ENVIRONMENTAL PI\OBlfMS <br />kill hl!fNn ~~ in hU&t numbcn 10- <br />.by? NOll ozone drpktioo or Abr. Wlw <br />kiUs IMm '" dung ~ and ~ <br />Throujthoul 1M ...OCW. many mort <br />pnlPk ~ ~h y"'" from fillhy ~ and dirty _I~ I~ <br />horn ~sb.mos, diOllin, d<<uomagndic r~ion, nl,1dnr <br />"'.15,ts. PCS'$" ptslicKk ,"idues ;r.od ulu;'lvioln I~ - <br />,he ~OOS... ccol~iul inurs d>o1l OOKss Wf'SI~n tnwoo- <br />ntml~lisn, Problmis likt dioxin ~ nucb wann;art rd <br /> <br />ffiDugh and mu~1 ~ ok>il ..ilh. 8.., Wf'<II'm. public <br />conscious,l('5s and tnvironmt"nl~ &foul>> coalln~ to <br />loc," on \\leh inun while all but iyloring millions of <br />annu:ll deuh, born poI1Ultd air and w.lur. <br />D:angtlOUS ai, Icvrll have bcwmt almost unkno'llln in <br />lilt Wesl, bUI 1.1 b.Uioro p<<>Vlc in ,h..developing world <br />live' in zones 01 dull:trously unsa(1!: air. According 10 the- <br />World HNllh Organiulion. bu y~r 4 million Ihird- <br />world children undrl Ihe a~t 01 S died fron' :KUIC' <br />lnp;ulory di)tne, brou~hl on in n.ml U~t) by ail <br />poIlulion. Thi~ ;~ moul .u many peoplt 01 "II ~t~ who <br />ditd of all cau~('S thai yur in Iht Un;led SUIU and Iht <br />Europun Union combined. <br />U~n ~Ir pollution ;~ wont in c..lculI;l, ~()S ~nd <br /> <br />GrtggE.ultrlnovkll"'01Irribtot,"l!:...ulor/DN~ <br />tmJ1hf.A'MIIIl,MoII'hiy Hi. booIro" IMt'I'I1IlI0/U>ltllt, "A <br />Mamtlll all /bt bUlh," wJJ bot p..bitshtJ 11m 1"" <br /> <br />'..OTOG..P.... AHll Quu..",.,IlII.UII <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE <br /> <br />SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1994 <br /> <br />APPENDIX A <br />